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James Monroe

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Description: Close-up of a statue of James Monroe, the 5th president of the United States of America. The statue stands in an open area at Ash Lawn, once Monroe's resi...
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Statue of Pocahontas

Date: 1922
Description: Close-up of a statue of Pocahontas located in the oldtown area of the city. Installed in 1922, and sculpted by William Ordway Partridge, the bronze statue...
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St. John's Church

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Description: View of the church from the cemetery, which has a large monument. A clergyman stands in the doorway of the church. The building is brick, with vines traili...
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Monument to New Jersey's Fifteenth Regiment

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Description: View of a monument to New Jersey's Fifteenth Regiment on the site of a battlefield. The memorial was erected by the State of New Jersey and is surrounded b...
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Monument to Major General John Sedgwick

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Description: View of a monument on a battlefield to Major General John Sedgwick, killed in action on May 9, 1864. The memorial, erected in 1887 by veterans of Segdwick'...
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Cemetery

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Description: A view of monuments in a cemetery that stand on the ground of a once bloody battlefield. The monument of the left commemorates New York's 49th Infantry, an...
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Reunion of Confederate Veterans: "Human Confederate Flag"

Date: 1907
Description: Colored postcard view of crowd in front of the stand. Caption reads: "Human Confederate Flag." Text at top right reads: "And 'twill live in song and story....
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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Monument

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Description: A monument and statue honoring the Confederate general Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson. There is a cemetery in the background on the left.
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Monument to Confederate Dead

Date: 1864
Description: An albumen stereograph of a monument to the Confederate dead, in the shape of a stone pyramid with steeply pitched sides.
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Monument to the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1915
Description: A monument dedicated to the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Companies B, E, F, and G. These companies were part of the Army of the Potomac, who fought a...
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World War Monument and County Clerk's Office

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Description: View of a World War I Monument outside of the County Clerk's Office. To the left of the colonnaded Clerk's Office, the Old Courthouse, built in 1895, can ...
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Effigy Tomb of General Robert E. Lee

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Description: Effigy tomb of General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), at Washington and Lee University.
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Statue of General Hugh Mercer

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Description: Bronze statue of Hugh Mercer (1726-1777), Physician and Brigadier General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Mercer died of wound he rec...
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Tomb of General Sheridan

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Description: Monument tomb of General Sheridan (1831-1888), Union general in the Civil War.
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Henry Clay Monument

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Description: View of the Henry Clay Monument with a statue of Clay inside. In front stand two young girls wearing dresses. Each girl is holding a pet rabbit. On the rig...
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The Old Workshop at Walnut Grove

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Description: View from fence-lined road towards two buildings. The log building on the left has an exterior chimney to the left of the door, and the door has a wooden w...
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Cyrus H. McCormick Marker at Walnut Grove

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Description: Stone marker at Walnut Grove. The inscription reads: "Cycrus H. McCormick — Inventor of the reaper. Was born on this farm, Feb. 15, 1809. Here he completed...

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