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First major celebration of July 4th by Kentucky’s African American community at Camp Nelson. Sgt William A. Warfield, of the 119th US Colored Infantry pronounced the event evidence of “an age of wonders”: “to see so many thousands, who a year ago were slaves, congregate in the heart of a slave State and celebrate the day sacred to the cause of freedom, ‘with none to molest or make afraid,’ was a grand spectacle. It was the first time we have ever been permitted to celebrate the Nation’s Day.”

The Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall, located in Peaks Island, Maine, was built in 1888 by veterans of the Fifth Maine Volunteer Regiment. It is a two-story building, constructed in the Queen Anne style and it is a combination of a communal centre…

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First Defenders Memorial (Allentown, PA)

First Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia)

First Confederate Hospital of the Civil War (Euharlee, Georgia)

First Confederate Flag Monument (Fairburn, Georgia)

First Confederate Flag Marker and Monument (Louisburg, North Carolina)

Firemen’s Memorial Monument

Fighting Joe Wheeler Statue (Washington, D.C., District of Columbia)

Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center

Ferguson Street