Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Monument

The monument honors the brave soldiers and sailors who saved the Union and was erected by the City of New York. Its eastern plinth names Grant, Farragut, Sickles, and Sheridan; battles and engagements including Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Hatteras Inlet, Balls Bluff, Port Royal, Fort Henry, Roanoke Island, Hampton Roads, Shiloh, Island No 10, New Orleans, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, Iuka, Corinth, Fredericksburg, Murfreesboro, Charleston, Jackson, and Chancellorsville; New York volunteer regiments actively engaged, including the Seventy Second, Seventy Third, Seventy Fourth, Eighty Second, and Eighty Third; and names including Winslow, Kelly, Barlow, Thoman, Cameron, Scott, Murphy, McMahon, Warren, Moesch, Huston, Stetson, and Winthrop. Its western plinth names Sherman, Porter, Worden, Cushing, and Rowan; battles and engagements including Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Fort Pillow, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Chambersburg, Mobile Bay, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fort Fisher, Wilmington, Bentonville, Five Forks, Petersburg, Richmond, and Appomattox; New York volunteer regiments actively engaged, including the Fifth Seventh, Forty Second, Fifty Ninth, Sixty First, Sixty Ninth, and Seventy First; and names including Ryder, Sicard, Kaeplis, Philip, Meagher, Craven, McIver, Smith, Olmstead, Wilkes, Taylor, and Wainwright.

New York, New York · United States