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Monument to Emma Sansom. Emma Sansom (June 2, 1847 – August 9, 1900) was an Alabama teenager and farm worker noted for her actions during the American Civil War (1861-1865), during which she assisted the defensive campaign of the mounted cavalry in the Confederate Army's then Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877), during the Streight's Raid by Union Army cavalry under command ...
Around 1899, the Ladies’ Confederate Monument Association began raising funds to erect a monument in St. Louis to soldiers who had fought against the United States. After some $23,000 ($411,305 today [1]) was raised, mostly from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the monument was installed in Forest Park, the city's largest park. It was ...
The Nathan Bedford Forrest Bust Monument (2000). Built partly with city funds, sponsored by Friends of Forrest and UDC. It was first located at the Vaughan-Smitherman Museum, but during protest over Forrest's KKK links trash was dumped on it [65] and it was damaged during an apparent attempt to remove the bust from its foundation. It was then ...
Confederate monument, downtown Hemming Park (1898) [173] [32]: 34 "The president of Jacksonville City Council, Anna Lopez Brosche, called for all Confederate monuments to be moved from city property to a museum. The most prominent Confederate memorial in Jacksonville is a statue of a Confederate soldier that sits atop a towering pillar in ...
"general sterling price / born in prince edward county, virginia / september 11, 1809 / resided in chariton county, missouri / 1831-1865 / speaker / of the house of representatives / of missouri general assembly / 1840-1844 / elected to congress 1844 / participated in war with mexico / 1846-1848/rising from rank of colonel / to that of ...
South Carolina's Confederate Dead (1879), also known as the South Carolina Soldiers Monument. [4] It was unveiled before a crowd of 15,000. [5] The monument was largely destroyed by lightning in 1882, but was replaced by the state two years later. [5] It is positioned on the northern end of the State House grounds.
View of the Eads Bridge under construction in 1870, listed as a St. Louis Landmark and National Historic Landmark St. Louis Landmark is a designation of the Board of Aldermen of the City of St. Louis for historic buildings and other sites in St. Louis, Missouri. Listed sites are selected after meeting a combination of criteria, such as whether the site is a cultural resource, near a cultural ...
Discovering the Enemy, 9th New York Cavalry Monument, by Caspar Buberl, 1888. 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument, by Smith Granite Company, 1889. 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument, by J.M. Gessler, ca. 1890. Major-General Meade, by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown, Cemetery Ridge, 1896. General Winfield Scott Hancock, by Frank Edwin Ellwell, Cemetery ...