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The John W. Jones’ house museum in Elmira, New York is an interactive museum to record and honour the contribution of the former slave, John W. Jones who is an activist int the Underground Railroad during 1850s and became the sexton of Woodlawn…

The cannon stored in Amherst College is a movable memorial to one of its students Frazar Stearns. During the war, Frazar followed his chemistry professor to attend the Battle of New Bern and was killed there. The cannon was brought back along with…

In 1863, a historic Civil War battle was fought near Chancellorsville. In this battle, Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his troops and lost one of his arms. The arm was originally buried in Ellwood Manor nearby and was given a Christian…

The Memorial Hall was proposed to commemorate the Harvard graduates who fought for the Union cause in the Civil War as well as to meet the demand of a theatre and a gathering space for alumni. Currently, it houses Sanders Theatre, Annenberg Hall, the…

The Wirz Monument was dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to commemorate Captain Heinrich Hartmann Wirz who served as the commander of the Andersonville Civil War Prison between 1864-65 and was hanged in Washington, DC in 1865 with a…

The Appomatox Statue is a bronze statue commemorating the Confederate dead of Alexandria, Virginia. A lone Confederate soldier stands facing south, the general direction of the battlefields of the Civil War, with his arm crossed. The figure has been…

As the first and the largest monument in Monument Avenue, the Robert E. Lee Monument is a focal point in Richmond, Virginia. It was erected in 1890 based on a painting of Robert Lee by Adalbert Volck. The monument is composed of two distinct parts:…

The Shaw Memorial is a bronze relief sculpture unveiled in Boston in 1897 to commemorate the fallen of 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and their contribution. It depicts Robert Gould Shaw leading his infantry which consists of black…

This monument was erected by United Daughters of the Confederacy in the University of North Carolina in 1913. It started to be known as "Silent Sam" since 1954 reported in a Student newspaper. However, it was toppled by protestors in August 2018 and…

Jefferson Davis Highway was a project sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the early of 1910s to commemorate the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis. The planned route ranges from Arlington, Virginia to San Diego,…