Confederate Civil War Monument

[Marlboro County]

[Inscriptions: South face]

1861

UDC

303

of Marlboro’s noble sons sacrificed

their lives on the battlefield, in

prison, and by disease.

“God’s peace is everlasting”

are the dream-words of their sleep.

Erected A.D. 1907

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No country ever had truer sons ;

No cause - ...

Montgomery County Civil War Memorial

The Memorial of

Montgomery County to her Soldiers.

Dedicated July 31, 1884.

"The Federal Union

Must and Shall be Preserved"

The Republic Rests on the

Virtue, Intelligence and Patriotism

of its Citizens.

"Liberty and Union,

Now and Forever, One and Inseparable"

Marker is on Main Street (Ohio Route 48), in ...

The Mississippi River in the Civil War

The Mississippi River in the Civil War

"Whatever nation gets control of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, will control the continent."

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1861

The goal of both the Northern (Federal or Union) and Southern (Confederate) armies was to ...

African Americans at Columbus during the Civil War

Confederate General Leonidus Polk occupied the site of Columbus and began erecting extensive fortifications in September of 1861. In addition to the soldiers under his command, more than 13,000 at one point, over 10,000 African American slaves were present. Several ...

Civil War Camp

Near here a Civil War training camp was built in August 1861. Named Camp Holton, Camp Sigel and finally Camp Reno, its boundaries were Prospect and Bartlett Avenues and Lafayette and Royall Places. Six Wisconsin infantry regiments, almost 7,000 men, ...

Battle of Beech Creek / The Civil War Ends In S.C

(Front text)

Battle of Beech Creek

In April 1865 Confederates formed a defensive line along the high ground above Beech Creek to oppose Brig. Gen. Edward Potter's Federals advancing through Stateburg toward Camden. S.C. militia, the 9th Ky. Mounted Infantry, and ...

Civil War Memorial

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Civil War Cemetery

On this site, 1861 - 1865, are buried several hundred Union and Confederate Soldiers. Killed in the Western Campaign. Lack of interest from distant families allowed deterioration of the wood grave markers ...

Civil War Hospital

Site of Jefferson General Hospital, the third largest hospital in the United States during the Civil War. Under Dr. Middleton Goldsmith's command it served over 16, 000 patients.

Marker is on East Park Place east of Crestview Court, on the right ...

A Bustling Civil War Community

By the end of the Civil War in 1865, the military bases at Point Lookout had grown into a small city. Besides the hospitals and prison camp, you could find dockyards, saw mills and warehouses - even a railroad, a ...

Civil War Soldiers' Monument

Originally erected in 1870 between Mt. Ephraim and Goodall Streets, this monument displays the names of 18 fallen Searsport men. It was dismantled in 1896 and moved to the current location in front of the new Masonic and Odd Fellows ...