List of Union Civil War monuments and memorials

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This is a list of American Civil War monuments and memorials associated with the Union. Monuments and memorials are listed below alphabetically by state. States not listed have no known qualifying items for the list.

Washington, D.C.

Lincoln seated statue sculpted by Daniel Chester French "He saved the Union"
Pension Building frieze, Caspar Buberl sculptor, 1887

U.S. Currency

U.S. commemorative stamp, 1963

US military

Bases

Gallery

Arizona

  • Picacho Peak State Park, Stone Monument Shaft. Erected by the Arizona Pioneers Historical Society and Southern Pacific Railroad Company on April 15, 1928. It commemorates the 3 Union soldiers who lost their life during the Battle of Picacho Pass and list their names. The dedication was a grand ceremony with many people attending and multiple organizations including the Woman's Relief Corps, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Grand Army of the Republic. In the 21st century a plaque dedicated to the Confederate veterans which was on a wall by the stone monument was removed and it was cemented on the bottom of the Union plaque. The plaque was later stolen.
  • Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery. A small flagstone with a Grand Army of the Republic medal on the front of it honors the dead Union veterans within the cemetery. The stone was erected in the 2000s by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Camp Negley Post of Tucson and the Burnside Post of Tombstone.
  • Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery. A small flagstone that commemorates the 18 California Volunteers Union veterans and one colored troop buried in the cemetery. Erected by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Department of California.
  • Prescott, Arizona. Plaque dedicated to the memory of the more than 50 Union Veterans buried with Citizens' Cemetery and their pioneer spirit that led to Arizona's statehood in 1912. Dedicated by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Department of the Southwest on August 17, 2022.
  • Tombstone, Arizona. Oldest Union monument in the State of Arizona erected "In memory of the comrades of Burnside Post G.A.R." dedicated on May 30, 1887, and is placed at the Old Tombstone Cemetery.

Arkansas

  • Sloan Springs
    Sloan Springs
  • Little Rock
    Little Rock

California

Schools

Colorado

Colorado State Capitol grounds

Connecticut

Joseph Roswell Hawley

Schools

Delaware

Florida

These are arranged by city:

  • 2nd Regiment Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops Monument, Centennial Park, Fort Myers, dedicated in 2000[14]
  • Union Soldier's Memorial, Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, erected in 1891[15]
  • Forgotten Soldier Memorial, in honor of African-American soldiers, Bayview Park, Key West, unveiled February 16, 2016[16]
  • Obelisk at Clinton Square, Bayview Park, Key West, circa 1866[17]
  • Monument Park, Lynn Haven, dedicated in 1920[18]
  • G.A.R. Memorial, Woodlawn Cemetery, Miami, dedicated on April 12, 1939[19]
  • G.A.R. Monument, Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando, 1910[20]
  • G.A.R. Monument, Veterans Park, St. Cloud, erected in 2000[21]
  • Unknown Soldiers Monument, Mount Peace Cemetery, St. Cloud, 1915[22]
  • Union Monument, Greenwood Cemetery, St. Petersburg, erected in 1900[23]
  • Daughter of Union Veterans Monument, Oaklawn Cemetery, Tampa[24]
  • In Memory of Our Union Veterans, Woodlawn Cemetery, Tampa[25]

Schools

  • Old Lincoln High School (also known as Lincoln Academy) in Tallahassee, 1869. School closed in 1967–68.
  • Lincoln High School (Tallahassee, Florida)
  • Lincoln High School (Gainesville, Florida)

Georgia

Illinois

Schools

Indiana

Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Delphi, Indiana), detail
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Delphi, Indiana), 1888
  • Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis), 1888
  • Corydon: Corydon Battle Site is a memorial to both sides that fought in the Civil War Battle of Corydon.
  • Colonel Richard Owen (bust), presented by Confederate organizations in honor of Union prison war camp director
  • Lincoln Bank Tower, 3 panels, Pioneer Backwoodsman, Preservation of the Union and Emancipation Proclamation[28] Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1930

Iowa

  • Abraham Lincoln Statue and Park, Clermont, dedicated June 19, 1903, erected in memory of Civil War soldiers and sailors[29]
  • Soldier's Monument (Davenport, Iowa), 1881[30]
  • Sac City Monument Square Historic District, Sac City[31]
    • General Sherman Hall; honors service of William T. Sherman 1892
    • Memorial Statue; 19 foot tall granite and bronze monument of Sherman unveiled Nov. 23 1894
    • 4 Civil War Cannon; "whether it was idle curiosity or absence of thought that caused Phil Schaller to fire one of the cannon to awaken the town on July 4, 1895, one will never know. The force of the cannon fire broke all the windows on the south side of the court house and many windows in the Main Street business district. (Sac City, Iowa, p. 19)"
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Des Moines, Carl Rohl-Smith, sculptor, 1896[32]
  • Clayton County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Elkader, W. H. Mullins Company[32]

Schools

  • Lincoln Elementary School in Manchester, 1916
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Des Moines
    Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Des Moines
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Des Moines, detail
    Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Des Moines, detail
  • Elkader
    Elkader
  • Elkader detail
    Elkader detail

Kansas

According to Kansas Civil War Monuments and Memorials, there are 105 counties in Kansas most have a monument to Union soldiers of the Civil War. Many were funded by GAR posts or Sons of Union Civil War Veterans, today the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.[33]

Monuments and memorials in Kansas include:

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

  • Memorial Hall (Oakland, Maine), 1870
  • Monument Square (Portland, Maine), which includes the Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument by sculptor Franklin Simmons, 1891.
  • Auburn
    Auburn
  • Augusta
    Augusta
  • Bethel
    Bethel
  • Lewiston
    Lewiston
  • Our Lady of Victories, Portland
    Our Lady of Victories, Portland
  • Evergreen Cemetery, Portland
    Evergreen Cemetery, Portland
  • Saco
    Saco
  • Westbrook
    Westbrook
  • York
    York
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Maryland

Massachusetts

  • Attleboro
    Attleboro
  • Devens Monument
  • Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (Boston)
    Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (Boston)
  • Boston Common
    Boston Common
  • Memorial Hall (Cambridge)
    Memorial Hall (Cambridge)
  • Cambridge
    Cambridge
  • Easton
    Easton
  • Framingham
    Framingham
  • Arlington
    Arlington
  • Grafton
    Grafton
  • Great Barrington
    Great Barrington
  • New Bedford
    New Bedford
  • Pittsfield
    Pittsfield
  • Raynham
    Raynham
  • Sandwich
    Sandwich
  • Springfield
    Springfield
  • Waltham
    Waltham
  • Webster
    Webster
  • Whitinsville (Northbridge)
    Whitinsville (Northbridge)
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Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

  • Monument to United States Colored Troops (1st and 3rd Mississippi Infantry, African Descent) at Vicksburg National Military Park. The inscription reads: "Commemorating the Service of the 1st and 3d Mississippi Infantry, African Descent and All Mississippians of African Descent Who Participated in the Vicksburg Campaign."
  • Monument to the 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Vicksburg National Military Park.
  • Monument to admiral David Farragut at Vicksburg National Military Park. Henry Hudson Kitson, sculptor
  • The Illinois Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park. Commemorating the 36,325 Illinois soldiers who participated in the Vicksburg Campaign and has 47 steps, one for every day Vicksburg was besieged.
  • Kentucky memorial composed of bronze statues of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, both native Kentuckians, Vicksburg National Military Park.[34]
  • The Michigan Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park.

Monuments and Memorials at Vicksburg National Military Park

  • USCT monument
    USCT monument
  • 18th Wisconsin VI
    18th Wisconsin VI
  • David Farragut Monument
    David Farragut Monument
  • Illinois Memorial
  • Kansas Memorial
    Kansas Memorial
  • Kentucky Memorial
    Kentucky Memorial
  • Michigan Memorial
    Michigan Memorial
  • Missouri State Memorial
    Missouri State Memorial

Missouri

Schools

Montana

Nebraska State Capitol

Nebraska

New Hampshire

Robert Gould Shaw Memorial

New Jersey

Schools

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

Schools

  • Lincoln Academy in Kings Mountain, 1886
  • Salisbury national cemetery, Union monument, 1876
  • Salisbury national cemetery, Maine monument, 1908
  • Salisbury national cemetery, Pennsylvania monument, 1910
  • New Bern national cemetery, Connecticut monument, 1894
  • New Bern national cemetery, New Jersey monument, 1905
  • New Bern national cemetery, Massachusetts monument, 1908
  • New Bern national cemetery, Rhode Island monument, 1910
  • Hertford, US colored troops monument, 1910
  • Goldsborough Bridge battle, (jointly with CSA troops)
  • Averasboro, 20th Corps monument, 2001
  • Bentonville battlefield, Sherman's 4 corps monument, 2013
  • Bentonville battlefield, 123rd New York monument, 2012
  • Bentonville battlefield, horse and mule monument (jointly with CSA), 2011
  • Bennett place, Durham, NC, Unity monument (jointly with CSA), 1923

North Dakota

Ohio

  • Jewish Civil War Memorial (Cincinnati, Ohio), 1868
  • Circleville Memorial Hall, in Circleville, c.1871
  • Civil War Soldiers Monument (Dayton),[42] 1884
  • Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Cleveland), 1894
  • Phillip Sheridan equestrian statue (Somerset), Carl Heber sculptor, 1905
    • The figure at the top of the monument, for which Private Fair served as the model, was replaced by a bronze version of the same piece in 1993, the Fair statue now serving as another monument.[43]
  • Dayton Memorial Hall, which commemorates the Civil War as well as other wars
  • These Are My Jewels monument (Columbus)
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Cleveland
    Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Cleveland
  • Hancock County Great Rebellion Memorial in Findlay, Ohio
    Hancock County Great Rebellion Memorial in Findlay, Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Schools

  • Lincoln Elementary School in Eugene 1953 (converted from prior Woodrow Wilson Junior High School). School closed in 1987 and repurposed as Lincoln School Condominiums.

Pennsylvania

Schools

  • Lincoln Elementary School in Pittsburgh, 1931
  • York, Martin Milmore, sculptor
    York, Martin Milmore, sculptor
  • Pennsylvania State Memorial, Gettysburg
  • Allentown
    Allentown
  • Allentown, detail
    Allentown, detail
  • Beaver
    Beaver
  • Easton
    Easton
  • McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery
    McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery
  • Gen. Wells
    Gen. Wells
  • Gen. Humphreys
    Gen. Humphreys
  • Lincoln Address Memorial, with bust of Abraham Lincoln
    Lincoln Address Memorial, with bust of Abraham Lincoln
  • Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge, Harrisburg, with date "1861"
    Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge, Harrisburg, with date "1861"

Rhode Island

  • Princes Hill Burial Ground, Barrington
    Princes Hill Burial Ground, Barrington
  • North Burial Ground, Bristol
    North Burial Ground, Bristol
  • Henry Tillinghast Sisson grave and statue in Little Compton
    Henry Tillinghast Sisson grave and statue in Little Compton
  • Burnside Monument, Burnside Park, Providence
    Burnside Monument, Burnside Park, Providence
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Providence
    Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Providence
  • Union Soldier Monument, Roger Williams Park, Providence
    Union Soldier Monument, Roger Williams Park, Providence
  • Warren Common, Warren
    Warren Common, Warren
  • Woonsocket
    Woonsocket
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South Dakota

Tennessee

  • Fort Negley, Nashville. The Fort was built by Union forces after the capture of Nashville.[51]

Texas

Utah

Vermont

  • Statue of Gen Wells, in Battery Park (Burlington, Vermont) sculpted by J. Otto Schweizer 1914
  • Gen. Wells in Burlington
    Gen. Wells in Burlington
  • Burlington
    Burlington
  • Brattleboro
    Brattleboro
  • Chester
    Chester
  • Middlebury
    Middlebury
  • Rochester
    Rochester
  • Swanton
    Swanton
  • Tribou Park in Woodstock
    Tribou Park in Woodstock
  • Woodstock
    Woodstock
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Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Former

  • Huntington Union monument dedicated by Bailey Post of the G.A.R. Formerly located at the corner of Fifth Ave. and Ninth St., it was scheduled to be moved to Ritter Park in 1915, but was subsequently lost.[63]

Wisconsin

  • The Victorious Charge
    The Victorious Charge
  • Winged Victory, Kenosha (1900)
    Winged Victory, Kenosha (1900)

Scotland

See also

External links

  • Maine Civil War Monuments
  • Massachusetts Civil War Monument Project

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