WEST POINT MEMORIAL AT ELMWOOD CEMETERY
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Statues War or Military Related
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: RICHARD E. MILLER
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
ELMWOOD CEMETERY IS A 50-ACRE MUNICIPAL CEMETERY ESTABLISHED IN 1853. IT IS JUST BESIDE NORFOLK’S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN CEMETERY, WEST POINT.
THE UNION SOLDIER ON THE MEMORIAL IS SAID TO BE MODELED ON SGT. WILLIAM CARNEY, 54TH MASS. VOL. INF. AN ALL AFRICAN AMERICAN REGIMENT.
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