61. American Civil War Battlefield Parks veterans who had fought in the civil war, there were the different theaters of operationduring the war. They were further intended to be memorials to members http://www.swcivilwar.com/cw_parks.html

This dispute was finally settled when the Supreme Court handed down a historic decision, ruling that the preservation of nationally important historic sites and buildings is a legitimate activity of the Government of the United States. The first parks formed the foundation of the present system of national battlefield parks. They were designed to preserve battlefields in the various parts of the country that represented the different theaters of operation during the war. They were further intended to be memorials to members of the great armies, both Federal and Confederate, that had confronted one another on them. Since the authorization of those first four parks many others have been added. These are included in the list below as links to their respective official websites. Each is an important element in the ongoing effort to preserve and honor the historical heritage which belongs to all of us as Americans. National Battlefield Parks-Links to their Websites Antietam National Battlefield Appomattox National Historical Site Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Fort Pulaski National Monument ... Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Home The Causes New Northern Leaders Southern Leaders ... Email

62. Two War Memorials implication, to all American war dead, the civil war in many on May 30 as DecorationDay, where war graves were had died in the very bloody battle of Shiloh. http://www.eccentricflower.com/clio/veterans.htm

It would be hard to find a nation that does not memorialize war in some way. This fighting and marking of battles seems to be deep within the nature of humans. When the gods were assumed to have the same failings as humans, they were said to fight and bicker amongst themselves constantly, sometimes causing and influencing battles among humans just to settle their own feuds. (Clio also notes, however, that in human battles it was common practice to claim the gods were on your side, so the record is open to dispute.) Latter-day gods decry war, as a whole, but war does not seem to be lessened because of it. Clio can only assume that humans like to fight. She does notice a change in the milestones. In bygone days, a war holiday was likely to mark a major victory; now a war holiday is more likely to mark the end of a conflict. Celebrating the end of war is an improvement, for certain, but Clio notes that war never seems to end for very long. Perhaps the problem is that humans forget so quickly. Clio will speculate on this in more depth in the future, when she writes about the Jewish Holocaust. In brief: Humans are constantly conflicted between the desire to forget their dark moments and the need to remember them. Generally the former wins. Official obscurity If you are an American (and Clio begs forgiveness from readers of other nations), chances are quite good that you do not know what either your

63. Chicago War Memorials KELLY PARK Seminary Fullerton. monument Battle of Bulge in Sheridan General whowas a calvary leader in the civil war. of Europe by the allies in World war II. http://www.ci.chi.il.us/WarMemorials/park_mem.html

Home News Events City Departments ... Contact Us Search for: BURNAM PARK S. Solidarity (Achsah Bond) Drive statue: Thaddeus Kosciusko Brigadier General who fought for freedom for his native Poland and the American Revolutionary War. BURNHAM PARK Soldier Field Honor Roll in Administration Building CHOPIN PARK marker: World War I DONOHUE PARK memorial: veterans FERNWOOD PARK memorial: World War I GAGE PARK memorial: Vietnam Veterans GARFIELD PARK memorial: Cornwall GARFIELD PARK statue: Lincoln the Railsplitter Abraham Lincoln 16th President of United States GRANT PARK in Court of Presidents, north of Congress Parkway near Columbus Drive statue: The Seated Lincoln Abraham Lincoln 16th President of United States GRANT PARK Michigan Avenue at 9th Street memorial: John Logan General in Civil War Founder of Memorial Day GRAVES PARK memorial: World War I INDIAN BOUNDARY PARK marker: World War I JEFFERSON PARK marker: Veterans KELLY PARK monument: Battle of Bulge in World War II KENNEDY PARK 11300 S. Western memorial: Korean War LINCOLN PARK Ridge Drive, overlooking Cannon Drive (1900 North) memorial: Ulysses S. Grant

64. Ehrgott & Forbriger Prints CL This is the same print, from the same stones, as Battle of Pea Ridge (cf. Chromolithograph.LOC A civil war certificate that Soldiers memorials. http://www.philaprintshop.com/ef4.html

Page 1 Views Page 2 Calendars ... Music Sheets This page: [ Civil War Other Historical Page 5 Maps Civil War: Memorials Series by A.E. Mathews Portrait prints Portfolios "Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. March 8th. 1862." An attractive battle scene. Identifications along the bottom, left to right, for: Sigel, Curtis, Osterhaus and Asboth. The images of these generals are the same as on the individual prints from the portrait series, so the same source (photograph) was probably used. This print also appeared with a title in German, cf. below. "Bird's Eye View Of Camp Chase Near Columbus, Ohio." Shows a Civil War encampment with number keyed captions in bottom margin. "Genl. Sigel in der Schlacht bei Pea Ridge, Ark. Mærz 8, 1862." This is the same print, from the same stones, as "Battle of Pea Ridge" (cf. above), but with the title in German. 1863. 14 x 10. Chromolithograph. [LOC] A Civil War certificate that includes various scenes (including an attack on Fort Sumter in bottom right) and an image of Columbia with an eagle. The certificate states, "This certifies that ." followed by four ruled, blank lines. Soldiers' Memorials "12 Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteers."

65. Monuments And Memorials To Women Warriors are some of the other statues and memorials that honor cannon firing after he fellin the battle of Monmouth The civil war may have been fought by men but women http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/monuments.html

Monuments and Memorials to Women Warriors Although it is the largest and most extensive undertaking for military women, WIMSA , the Women's Memorial at the gates of Arlington National Cemetery, is not the first monument to military women or to women who have aided the military in our country's time of war. Here are some of the other statues and memorials that honor those brave women who served their country in many ways over the years since our nation began. On April 26 1777, the daughter of a New York militia officer, Sybil Ludington was with her family when an exhausted messenger reached the Ludington home with news of a British attack and burning of Danbury, Connecticut where munitions and supplies for the entire region were stored. Sybil leapt to her horse and galloped off to rally the surrounding patriots and call out the volunteer militia to repel the British raid. Racing through the dark night over more than 40 miles of unfamiliar roads, the 16-year-old girl spread the alarm to rouse the countryside against the attack. The statue, presented by the DAR, is in Carmel, New York. Margaret Corbin: During the Revolutionary War battle of Fort Washington, 1776, Margaret Corbin manned her husbands cannon when he was killed, until she was wounded. Margaret Corbin was the first woman awarded a pension by Congress for her service and disability. She is buried in the U.S. Military Academy Cemetery at West Point. Some historians think that her deeds, not those of Mary Hays, began the legend of Molly Pitcher.

66. Civil War Monuments In Ohio Otterbein College recognized its civil war soldiers in 1915 several plaques aboutthe Battle of Buffington Ohioans built structures as memorials to the civil http://library.cincymuseum.org/cwdetails7help.htm

Civil War Monuments in Ohio Introduction Monument Designs Monument Honorees Monument Builders ... Civil War Monuments Menu Introduction The Civil War lasted four long years and Ohio played a pivotal role with 310,654 men enrolled in 230 regiments. Nearly all were volunteers as only 8750 were drafted. There were 5092 Black soldiers from Ohio. Over 200 Ohioans reached the rank of general. To insure that future generations would remember Ohio's contributions to the Civil War, Ohioans constructed monuments, statues, plaques and buildings. Even while war still waged, Ohioans began to build monuments. In 1863, the citizens of Bristolville, Trumbull County, erected a monument to honor thirteen local men who were "Defenders of the Union from Bristol, Ohio." The square-shaped stone monument is topped with a funerary urn and decorated with crossed swords, cannon and rifles. Also in 1863, Cincinnatians contributed funds for a suitable monument. Randolph Rogers received the commission in 1864. His statue of a Union soldier on guard, "The Sentinel," was installed in Spring Grove Cemetery in 1865. Bristol, Ohio

67. Memorials To Minney Minnell Minnie Miney From One Name Family History Study Click here if the left hand Menu frame is not displayed. memorials. Thememorial has four sides each identifying a major civil war Battle. http://freespace.virgin.net/b.minney/memorial.htm

Click here if the left hand Menu frame is not displayed Memorials The majority of these memorial details are from the records of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. (Link to The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Web Site) Private A Minnie. Cape Corps S A Forces Died 24th October 1942 Private C/300418. El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. Grave reference; XI B 11. Driver A J Minney. Royal Field Artillery Died 15th April 1917 Driver 174331. Chatby Memorial, Egypt. The unburied dead from six vessels are named on this memorial situated on the east side of Alexandria. The hired transport "Cameronia" was torpedoed and sunk on 15th April 1917, 150 miles East from Malta. She was carrying reinforcements for Mesopotamia and 127 of the soldiers on board are named. Sergeant Alexander Richard Minney. RAF Volunteer Reserve Died 27th September 1942 Sergeant 938925. Son of Ellen J Taylor of Candleriggs, Glasgow. Kettering (London Road) Cemetery, Northants. Grave reference: Row 00. Grave 17. Corporal B Minney. Northants Regiment Died 4th November 1918 Corporal 49037, 6th Bn. Preux-Au-Bois Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. Grave reference; A 40. The village of Preux Au Bois was captured on 4th November 1918 after a severe struggle by units of the 18th Division and Tanks. The cemetery contains the graves of 65 soldiers from the UK, one of whom is unidentified and almost all belonged to the 18th Division. The graves of 150 German soldiers have been removed.

68. Mold-Help:Refurbished Monument Rededicated To Heroes Of Civil War we can fix up all the memorials of our explained that Huxham was the only CivilWar soldier from Middletown killed at the infamous Battle of Gettysburg http://www.mold-help.org/pages/submenus/moldnews/monument2.htm

Current Headlines Help for Michigan Flood Victims Under Way Mold Cover-Up? Who to Contact ... Mold Discussion Board Archived Library Spiritual Definition Fungal Infections "Sick Buildings" The Workplace ... Confidential Contact Search this Site using This Site The WWW Mold Living Building Insurance ... Work Politics Stories Home Mold News Refurbished monument rededicated to heroes of Civil War Refurbished monument rededicated to heroes of Civil War by Jim Hickey, Middletown Press Staff : August 05, 2002 MIDDLETOWN A large gathering of residents and local officials paused to pay tribute to two of the city's war heroes on Sunday, as the newly refurbished Gibbons/-Huxham monument was unveiled during a ceremony at the Mortimer Cemetery. There are probably many Middletown residents who don't know the story of Capt. Elijah W. Gibbons and Samuel Huxham, who died fighting for Company B of the 14th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteer Army in the Civil War. While their stories may be lost on some, there are still countless residents that cling to their memory and maintain their heroic story, ensuring that the story of their brave acts will be passed along to future generations and never forgotten. Under the bright summer sun, many of those residents gathered in the cemetery to honor the two men and give thanks to their descendants. Civil War historian told stories of the men's bravery on the battlefield, and a number of speakers urged everyone to honor not only Gibbons and Huxham, but all the men who fought and died in the Civil War. "One hundred and forty years ago today, 94 men from Middletown set sail down the Connecticut River to go to battle against the Confederacy.

69. Civil War History In Nashville & Middle Tennessee of Nashville Preservation Society Excellent site with civil war information,including photos of sites and memorials, regarding the Battle of Nashville. http://www.blueshoenashville.com/civilwar.html

Things to Do Art Exhibits Free Things to Do Dining ... Pigeon Forge Timberslog Motel Civil War (1860-1865) Battle of Nashville: Union Troops Broke Through the Confederate Line Steps of the Capitol with covered guns in Nashville, Tennessee CREDIT: Barnard, George N., photographer. "Nashville, Tennessee. Steps of the Capitol with Covered Guns; Vista of the City Beyond." 1864. Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865, American Memory collections, Library of Congress. "There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war." - Robert E. Lee Nashville Historic Societies Battle of Nashville Preservation Society : Excellent site with Civil War information, including photos of sites and memorials, regarding the Battle of Nashville. Preservation efforts and opportunities for volunteer service. Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans

70. Goodwin Monument, Sailors And Soldiers Monument, Portsmouth monument photo SUMMARY After the bloody civil war, memorials to the dead and wounded swords,the GAR badge, a list of all major civil war battle, the city seal http://www.seacoastnh.com/monuments/goodwin.html

Name Location Goodwin Park, Islington Street, Portsmouth, NH Honors Portsmouth area Civil War veterans Dedicated July 4, 1888 Artist Monumental Bronze Company Read "Making the Goodwin Monument Sing" SUMMARY: After the bloody Civil War, memorials to the dead and wounded appeared by the hundreds across the nation. To capitalize on this trend, the Monumental Bronze Company and others worked to streamline their sales with new affordable products. Using a cheaper zinc alloy, promoted as "white bronze", they could offer prefabricated statues and monuments. The largest white bronze monument in New Hampshire, Portsmouth's Sailors and Soldiers Monument is right from the company catalog. In fact, a sketch of our exact memorial is pictured on the company's business card Statues like the " American soldier " figure are depicted in great detail in the company's 1882 catalog. Buyers could purchase just one statue, or a combination of interchangeable figures and plaques. The soldier image alone, for example, cost only $450. For an additional $150, if the buyer could supply a photograph of a slain Civil War hero or loved one, the head would be recast in his likeness and attached to the prefabricated body. Portsmouth mayor Marcellus Eldredge, owner of the local brewery , originally planned to put this single image at the top of the monument, but later he opted for a larger more costly monument featuring a figure of Lady Liberty (or "America" as it is sometimes called) at the top of a long pedestal.

71. Military.com Resources Military.com s entire list of civil war museums and memorials National civil warMuseum 48 E Patrick St. Battle of Lexington Historic Site PO Box 6 Extension http://www.military.com/Resources/ResourceSubmittedFileView?file=museums_civilwa

72. Ohio Civil War Bibliography 1887 Reprint Ohio memorials At Gettysburg. To Care For Him Who Has Borne The Battle Research Guide to civil war Material in the National Tribune. http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/cwbiblio.html

Bibliography for Ohio in the Civil War compiled by Larry Stevens Lists of Soldiers and Officers Army Register of Ohio Volunteers in the Service Of the United States; Comprising the General Staff of State; Staff of the Various Departments; Lists of Brigadiers; Roll of Field, Staff and Commissioned Officers, and a Complete List of Casualties, Compiled from Official Records in the Adjutant General's Office. April 1862 listing of Ohio Officers. 74 pgs. Charles A. Poland. Published by the Ohio State Journal Printing Co. Columbus. Ohio. 1862 Army Register of Ohio Volunteers in the Service Of the United States .... July 1862 listing of Ohio Officers. 85 pgs. Charles A. Poland. Published by the Ohio State Journal Printing Co. Columbus. Ohio. 1862 Official Roster of Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion . Twelve Volumes. Werner Company. Akron. Ohio. 1886-95 Naval Records of Ohio Personnel, 1861-1895 . Ohio. Adjutant General's Dept. 2.8 cubic ft. 1 folder oversized. Most records 1861-1865. Contains cards listing sailor's name, birthplace, where enlistment was credited, date of enlistment, term of enlistment, rank, vessels served on, and final disposition. State Archives Series. Located at Ohio Historical Society. Columbus. Ohio Index to compiled service records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who served in organizations from the state of Ohio . United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Washington. National Archives. National Archives and Records Service. 1964

73. Welcome To R. S. Kinnaird Memorials participation of the Beallsville area residents in the civil war, some of FrederickCounty Korean war Memorial On the center is a map of the battle theatre and http://kinnairdmemorials.com/war.htm

War Memorials War Memorials We have supplied lettered and installed the following memorials: Monocacy Cemetery Civil War Memorial, Beallsville, MD. This large ledger type memorial gives a description of the participation of the Beallsville area residents in the Civil War, some of whom served with opposing forces. Thurmont Community Park War Memorial. This community memorial list the names of all Thurmont residents who have served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. The names are carved on four Barre granite tablets and are placed in the park pavillion around the World War I Memorial. Thurmont Unknown Veterans Memorial. In the middle of the Thurmont Community War Memorial is a single granite memorial dedicated to the Unknowns of all conflicts. Frederick County Korean War Memorial. The Frederick County Korean Veterans Memorial is set in the Memorial Park in Frederick and consists of 4 double sided Barre granite panels with the names of the veterans. At the center is a granite column with a list of those killed in action on the front and the county seal and emblems of the branchs of service on the back. Frederick County Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

74. The Civil War In Virginia Maps of National Historic Military Parks, memorials, and Battlefields; ColonelJohn Mosby Buchanan County (Virginia) civil war Web Page; Battle of Cedar http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/civwar.html

@import url(../styles/base.css); Civil War in Virginia Ambrose Bierce is credited with the sardonic comment, "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography..." Site of Civil War Hospital in Mount Jackson, between Winchester and Staunton (most Civil War hospitals were in areas remote from fighting but near railroads, which brought the wounded and supplies... but Mount Jackson was in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley battles in 1864) The physical geography of Virginia affected where the armies marched, where they camped, and where they fought. The war made a lot of places in Virginia special , even "hallowed." Efforts to preserve the special places today reflect the geography of tourism. On to Richmond in 1861 Map of the Virginia Railroads at the Start of the Civil War After First Manassas The 1862 Peninsula Campaign ... Yorktown in the Civil War Links 1864 - The Valley Aflame Bristoe Station Bermuda Hundred (In May, 1864 - after Cold Harbor - General Ulysses S. Grant recognized the futility of attacking entrenched positions manned with a full complement of Confederate soldiers. Burnside had failed at Fredericksburg, and Grant himself had failed at Cold Harbor. However, he knew that thinly-manned or hastily-built fortifications could be seized - he had already done so in the Overland Campaign at Spottsylvania and Fredericksburg. The question was... could Grant's subordinate, General Benjamin Butler, recognize if the trenches blocking the path to Petersburg were too strongly fortified?)

75. Books -- The Civil War In The Middle Appalachian Mountains Toland s Raid on Wytheville, and the Battle of Saltville. helps travelers find theCarolinas famous civil war battlefields, forts, and memorials, as well http://www.cccyclery.com/civilwmam.html

Books The Civil War in the Middle Appalachian Mountains The American Civil War in the Middle Appalachian Mountains was fought by regular armies and irregulars fighting for North and the South in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, the Valley of Virginia, Western North Carolina, and West Virginia. The people of the Middle Appalachians were just as divided as the the nation was during the war. Virginia would pay the price for rebellion by losing countless citizens to the war and the counties that make up the State of West Virginia, no other state would pay the same. History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry by W. R. Carter Hardback, 351 pages, 1st printing - 1896, Reprinted - 1992 by Overmountain Press, Johnson City, TN, Size - 9.5 X 6. Long out-of-print, an exceptional account of the Civil War in the West a Union regimental history written by a member of the regiment. Order Checkout The Emancipator by Elihu Embree bookeman Paperback, 112 pages, 1st printing - 1932, Reprinted - 1995 by Embreeville Publication, Jonesborough, TN, Size - 9 X 6.

76. Civil War Pamphlets: Veterans, Memorials - Kansas State Historical Society Veterans, memorials. See also civil war pamphlets on microfiche general information. andby a map of the battlefield and a plan of the cemetery. http://www.kshs.org/research/collections/documents/booksmags/civilwarpams/cwpams

Civil War Pamphlets on Microfiche Veterans, Memorials The titles below are available on interlibrary loan . See also Civil War pamphlets on microfiche: general information Titles: A B C D ... Z - A - Address at the funeral of Capt. Lorenzo D. Gove : slain by rebels in Virginia, delivered in the Congregational Church at Dartmouth College / by S.P. Leeds. Hanover, N.H. : Printed at the Dartmouth Press, 1863. Full Catalog Record Address before Post No.2, Dep't of Penn'a, Grand Army of the Republic : at Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia, Decoration Day, May 30, 1879 / by William H. Lambert. Philadelphia : Press of Culbertson Bache, 1879. Full Catalog Record Address before the Society of the Army of the Cumberland : at their eleventh reunion, Washington, November 19, 1879 / by Anson G. McCook. Cincinnati : Press of R. Clarke Co., 1879. Full Catalog Record Address delivered Wednesday, 28th November, 1866 : in Feller's Hall, Madalin, township of Red Hook, Duchess Co., N.Y. / by J. Watts De Peyster. New York : [s.n.], 1867. Full Catalog Record Middletown, Conn. : Pelton King, printers, 1884.

77. Kansas War Memorials Kansas Military Veterans Casualties, Cemeteries, memorials * Free Military eCards* USA in the civil war * Kansas civil war Rosters * civil war battle sites in http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/kssights/ks-veterans.html

Kansas Military Veterans Casualties, Cemeteries, Memorials * Free Military eCards USA Military History Searches Name Searches: Family Finder Search Family Name Search * By Surname * By State Living people Military Links 20th KS Volunteer Infantry 22nd Regiment, KS Volunteer Infantry, Company C Washington, DC Kansas Commission on Veteran Affairs ... Kansans in the Korean War Family Forum Searches Kansas Counties * at Rootsweb/Ancestry.com * at GenForum * Forums: Other Localities Kansas Military Casualty Lists Civil War Kansas in the Civil War Kansas Civil War Rosters Civil War battle sites in KS , map (also see the MO map WWI * Search by name Kansas Casualties WWII State Summaries of War Dead - Kansas (click on " Dead (Combat) " for name listed on pages of the book) * Search by name Korean War Heartland Heroes , name list National Archives , name list * Search by name Vietnam War * We lost from to Kansans National Archives , name list * Search the Virtual Wall and/or The Wall-USA for Kansas Iraq War * One Kansan lost: Army Sgt. Jacob L. Butler picture from Wellsville, KS died April 1, 2003 at Assamawah, Iraq

78. Measured Museums and memorials. Camp Dennison civil war Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio.Carter House Museum - was at the center of the civil war Battle of Franklin. http://www.7cs.com/civilwar.htm

M easured in physical devastation and human lives, the American Civil War was the costliest war in the experience of the American people. When it ended, 620,000 men (in a nation of 35 million) had been killed and at least that many more had been wounded. More men died of disease and sickness than on the battlefield; the ratio was about four to one. The physical devastation was largely limited to the South, where almost all the fighting took place. Large sections of Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, Mobile, and Vicksburg lay in ruins. The countryside through which the contending armies had passed was littered with gutted plantation houses and barns, burned bridges, and uprooted railroad lines. Many crops were destroyed or confiscated, and much livestock was slain. More than $4 billion worth of property had been wiped out through emancipation, the repudiation of Confederate bonds and currency, the confiscation of cotton, and war damage. The war settled the question of the permanence of the Union; the abolition of slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation ; the doctrine of secession was discredited, and after 1865 states would find other ways to manifest their grievances. The war expanded the authority of the federal government, with the executive branch in particular exercising broader jurisdiction and powers than at any other time in its history.

79. Fredericksburg, Survivors and stubbornly during the war and the many memorials which grace the highest casualtyrate of any Union regiment in any battle! civil war IN MINIATURE CONTINUES http://civilwarmini.com/chapii.htm

Loading....Music and graphics Music by the great Don Carroll CIVIL WAR IN MINIATURE CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CLINGMAN'S DOME Thomas L. Clingman commanded a Confederate brigade in Virginia. He was originally from North Carolina. After the war, Clingman sought refuge from the horrors of war and spent much time exploring the great Smokey Mountains. The serenity of the mountains, its beauty and captivation were his great escape from a past of death and violence. The famous landmark, "Clingman's Dome," a high protruding peak, visited by thousands of people each year in the great Smokies, is named after him. THE SURVIVORS Who was the last surviving veteran of the Civil War Albert Woolson, drummer boy of the Union army. He died in 1956 and is authenticated. The last authenticated Confederate was Pleasant Crump, 10th Alabama, who died in 1951. The last surviving Union general was Brig. Gen. Adelbert Ames, dying in 1933 at age 97. The last surviving Confederate general was Brig. Gen. John McCausland, age 91 - His death was recorded in 1928. And the last surviving widow?

80. Arlington National Cemetery:: Visitor_Information dedicated to soldiers who had died in battle, and who of about 2,111 unknowns gatheredfrom US civil war battlefields Back to Monuments and memorials main page. http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/visitor_information/Civil_War.html

Visitor Information Monument And Memorials Civil War Unknowns Near Arlington House, in what was once part of its famous rose garden, stands a monument dedicated to the unknown soldiers who died in the Civil War. The monument, dedicated in September 1866, stands atop a masonry vault containing the remains of 2,111 soldiers gathered from the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock. The remains were found scattered across the battlefields or in trenches and brought here. This monument was the first memorial at Arlington to be dedicated to soldiers who had died in battle, and who later could not be identified. Because in some instances only a few bones or a skull were recovered, it is assumed that the vault contains the remains of Confederate soldiers as well as Union troops. Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs ordered that these bodies be gathered and buried on this particular site, knowing that the presence of graves here would prevent the Lee family from inhabiting their house again. [D] Marks mass graves of about 2,111 unknowns gathered from U.S. Civil War battlefields

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