This is the location where the Confederate General “Stonewall” Jackson, having been accidentally injured by his own men, succumbed to pneumonia and died in 1863. At the time, it was an office building belonging to the Thomas Chandler Plantation. The…
A rather obscure monument to a forgotten Confederate officer, the Matthew Fontaine Maury Memorial is a small stone tablet with an embedded bronze plaque overlooking a section of the Maury River called Goshen Pass. Maury himself was supposedly a man…
Kehinde Wiley's large bronze sculpture sits it stark defiance to the recently removed Confederate monuments that once lined Richmond Virginia's infamous Monument Avenue. Originally unveiled in Times Square, the sculpture depicts a African American…
Located in a quiet corner of a cemetery in the town of Mount Jackson Virginia, the "To All Confederates" monument was erected in 1903 by the Mount Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The cemetery was once the site of a…
Atop a pile of rocks about a half mile north of the town of New Market Virginia sits a stone tablet on which a poem is inscribed. It reads: "This rustic pile, the simple tale will tell: It marks the spot, where Woodson's Heroes Fell'. This simple…
Previously located outside Talbot County courthouse in Easton Maryland before being relocated to the Cross Keys Battlefield in 2021, this simple statue commemorates the 96 confederate soldiers from Talbot County Maryland who died in the Civil War. It…
This unusual memorial is dedicated to estimated 4,000 enslaved people who worked the grounds of the University of Virginia. Constructed from local granite, the memorial takes the form of a broken ring which measures about 80 feet in diameter and…
This tall, stone monument located near the historic Salem Church is dedicated to the 15th New Jersey Infantry regiment. It marks the site of a bloody battle between them and the Confederate 14th Georgia regiment in which around 116 men were killed…
Orion Perseus Howe was a Union drummer boy in Company C, of the 55th Illinois Infantry. On 19th May 1863 at the battle of Vicksburg he was present on the field and was ordered by Colonel Malmborg to go to General Sherman and request the supply of…
This monument, located in Spring Hill Cemetery (also known as Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum), depicts a Union soldier at "Parade Rest" and is dedicated to the men from Vermillion County who fought for the Union during the war. Strikingly, the…