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Confederate War Memorial (1883) [1] Richard Kirkland Memorial Fountain (1911) [1] Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston: Confederate Defenders of Charleston - Contains two bronze allegorical statues. The male figure, nude, is the defending warrior, with a sword in his right hand and a shield bearing the Seal of South Carolina in his left hand ...
Indiana's state seal during the war. Indiana was the first of the country's western states to mobilize for the Civil War. [1] When news reached Indiana of the attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, many Indiana residents were surprised, but their response was immediate.
Corydon: Corydon Battle Site is a memorial to both sides that fought in the Battle of Corydon, the only Civil War battle in Indiana. It contains Corydon's Civil War Museum. [244] Evansville: The Confederate monument (1904) at Oak Hill Cemetery marks the burial site of 24 Confederate prisoners who died at Evansville. [245] Indianapolis:
Camp Morton served as a military camp for Union soldiers from April 1861 to February 1862. [1] Two days after the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, Indiana's governor Morton offered to raise and equip ten thousand Indiana troops in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to suppress the Southern rebellion and ...
The Corydon Battle Site is a protected park area located in Harrison Township, Harrison County, Indiana. The site preserves the battlefield where a portion of the Battle of Corydon occurred on July 9, 1863. It is part of the Harrison County Parks Department and is officially known as the Battle of Corydon Memorial Park. [2]
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.
Ruins in Charleston, South Carolina at Charleston in the American Civil War, by George N. Barnard (restored by Adam Cuerden) Charge across the Burnside Bridge , by Edwin Forbes (restored by Adam Cuerden )
During the Civil War, Corydon was the site of the only "official pitched battle" fought in Indiana. On July 9, 1863, Confederate brigadier general John Hunt Morgan 's cavalry of more than 2,000 men crossed the Ohio River into Indiana to begin what is known as " Morgan's Raid ".