PENNSYLVANIA SALISBURY PRISON WAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Location: SALISBURY NATIONAL CEMETERY-GOVERNMENT ROAD
City: SALISBURY
State: North Carolina
Zip Code: 28144
Type of Memorial: War Memorial Temples
Year Dedicated: 1907
Access: Cemetery
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: BILL COUGHLIN
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
TO COMMEMORATE THE PATRIOTIC DEVOTION, HEROISM, AND SELF-SACRIFICE OF THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS WHO DIED WHILE CONFINED AS PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE CONFEDERATE MILITARY PRISON AT SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION AND WERE INTERRED AMONG THE UNKNOWN UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS IN THE EIGHTEEN TRENCHES AT THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF THE MONUMENT.
SEE ALSO-PENNSYLVANIA SALISBURY PRISON WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUES A, B, & C
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