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The Battle of New Bern was fought near New Bern, North Carolina on March 14, 1862 where Frazar Stearns lost his life. The Belligerents are the US Army's Coast Division, Union soldiers led by Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate soldiers led by…

The Rockery is a memorial cairn created by "The Father of American Landscape Architecture', Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted preferred the cairn to masonry or sculpture as he envisaged the symbolic growth of plants over the rockery of battle; its crest…

Also known as "The Color Bearer', this monument features a statue of an idealised Union Color Sergeant, cast from condemned cannon, atop a granite column. On the east and west faces are presented the State of Massachusetts and United States seals,…

Located in the town common, the Soldiers' Monument honours the 50 Greenfield men who were killed in action during the Civil War. Artist James G. Batterson's study of Egyptology is noticeable in the design of the granite column, which is topped by a…

Dedicated in July of 1866, the Barnstable's Soldiers' Monument was among the first Civil War memorials to be erected in the state of Massachusetts. A granite obelisk standing at 15ft, the monument features the names of many local war heroes alongside…

Oak Bluffs' Soldiers' Memorial Fountain, though erected by Confederate veteran Charles Strahan, depicts a Union soldier and was dedicated to the Henry Clay Wade Post of the GAR in 1891. Strahan's hope that he might receive some similar dedication was…

Located in the grounds of Boston's Massachusetts State House, this equestrian statue of General Joseph Hooker was a collaborative effort between Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter, who designed figure and horse respectively. Hooker is best…

Standing in front of the Old Worcester County Courthouse, this monument depicts Worcester County's only major general of the Civil War, Charles Devens, though it honours all men of the county who fought for the Union. Present at the dedication in…

Now functioning as Norwood's Town Hall, the Memorial Municipal Building began construction in 1927 and was dedicated on November 11th the following year in memory of the Norwood residents who had given their lives in the Civil and First World Wars.…