Three Rivers Civil War Monument

From 1861 to 1865, soldiers were honored for fighting for Union and liberty in the Civil War, with battles and campaigns named including Appomattox, Stone River, Antietam, Chickamauga, Fredericksburg, Missionary Ridge, Chancellorsville, Reseca, Cold Harbor, Tebbs Bend, Petersburg, Perryville, Hatchers Run, Knoxville, Five Forks, Franklin, Cedar Mountain, Nashville, Pea Ridge, Malvern Hill, Cedar Creek, Winchester, the Peninsular Campaign, Mobile, Charleston Harbor, Atlanta, Monitor and Merrimac, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Wilderness. The monument also invokes national unity, one government, one flag, and one common destiny; calls for binding up the nation’s wounds and caring for those who bore the battles, their widows, and their orphans; affirms government of, by, and for the people; praises the Union forever and liberty; and associates these ideals with Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, and Farragut.

Three Rivers, Michigan · United States