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The Pennsylvania State Memorial [2] is a monument in Gettysburg National Military Park that commemorates the 34,530 Pennsylvania soldiers who fought in the July 1 to 3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The memorial stands along Cemetery Ridge, the Union battle line on July 2, 1863. [3]
The monument, which faces northeast to Plymouth Harbor (and, roughly, towards Plymouth, England), sits in the center of a circular drive, which is accessed from Allerton Street from the east. The plan of the principal pedestal is octagonal , with four small, and four large faces; from the small faces project four buttresses .
UDC monument (1916) to Prattville Dragoons, on grounds of Prattville Primary School [60] Rogersville: CSA Gen. Joseph Wheeler Monument, Joe Wheeler State Park (2006) by SCV, Freeman's Battery Forrest's Artillery Camp No. 1939 [61] "Arsenal Place" memorial in Selma, Alabama Bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Old Live Oak Cemetery. Selma:
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
Canadian Firefighters Memorial, Ottawa, dedicated in 2012 [5] The Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917 involved a blast and fires which killed more than 2,000 persons. One memorial work was the Halifax Explosion Memorial Sculpture which was located at the Halifax North Memorial Library, itself another memorial to the event.
Confederate Monument or War Memorial Monument: Belzoni, Humphreys County Courthouse Columbus Marble Works, fabricator marble Spring 1923 Monument includes three figures, a woman, a CSA soldier and a WWI doughboy "The figure of the World War I soldier is the second made for the memorial.
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)
(Note: Although monuments and memorials in the U.S. include National Memorials like the Washington Monument, this category is not meant to describe various natural park–type places, such as Devils Postpile, which happen to be given the legal name "National Monument" for reasons unrelated to any memorial.)