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Ferdinand Foch visited the hall in 1921. [7] Garner Ted Armstrong of The World Tomorrow spoke at The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall on March 25, 1978. [8] G. E. Lowman spoke at the hall on April 23, 1938, and again in 1962 [9] Nelson Mandela spoke at the hall on December 6, 1991. Barack Obama visited the hall in 2008.
The Allegheny Arsenal, established in 1814, was an important supply and manufacturing center for the Union Army during the American Civil War, and the site of the single largest civilian disaster during the war. [1] It was located in the community of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, which was annexed by the city of Pittsburgh in 1868.
Among the recipients of the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action during the war were Alexander Kelly, a free black who fought in the 6th U.S.C.T. The mayors of Pittsburgh during the Civil War were George Wilson (1860–1862), Benair C. Sawyer (1862–1864), and James Lowry, Jr. (1864–1866).
Philadelphia: GAR museum and library maintained by the Philadelphia Camp Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in the John Ruan House. The archive holds numerous GAR post records and the museum has a variety of civil war artifacts. [82] Pittsburgh: Soldiers & Sailors Hall dedicated in 1910 as a GAR memorial. [83]
Business & Industry, Military, Military Post-Civil War, Oil & Gas, Transportation Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company: October 19, 1983: Plaza of PPG Place, between 4th Avenue & Market Square, Pittsburgh: City Business & Industry, Glass
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Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Pennsylvania (9 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Pennsylvania" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
The Doughboy is a war memorial and neighborhood landmark in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Located at the Y-shaped intersection of Lawrenceville's two busiest commercial streets, Butler Street and Penn Avenue, the monument has become a symbol of the neighborhood [1] and "probably the most well known veterans monument in Pittsburgh". [2]