The Banning and Rowe Monument in East Hartland Cemetery memorializes John F. Banning
and Rodolphus D. Rowe, brother-in-laws from Hartland who enlisted in the 16th
Connecticut Infantry. In Plymouth, South Carolina, both men were taken as POWs to…
"Also known as the Dictator, the Petersburg Express mortar monument honours the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery Unit members. The unit used the mortar during the Siege of Petersburg from 1864-65. Weighing in at 7.7 tons, the mortar had to be…
Located under the Connecticut State Capitol's north portico, the Joseph Roswell Hawley Medallion honors Joseph Hawley, the first volunteer from Connecticut to enlist in the Union Army. After the war, Hawley was elected Governor of Connecticut and…
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…
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…