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(2010) Enlarge Civil War Sailors and Soldiers Memorial detail list of land battles, rear view

(2010) Enlarge General Reynolds monument at City Hall, Philadelphia

     

(2010) Enlarge General McClellan monument at City Hall, Philadelphia

 

(2010) Enlarge William McKinley monument at City Hall, Philadelphia

     
 

(2010) Enlarge William McKinley monument detail; The future President of the United States in June 1861, at the start of the American Civil War enlisted in the Union Army, as a private in the 23rd Ohio Infantry. The regiment was sent to western Virginia, where it spent a year fighting small Confederate units. His superior officer, another future U.S. president, Rutherford B. Hayes, promoted McKinley to commissary sergeant for his bravery in battle. For driving a mule team delivering rations under enemy fire at Antietam, Hayes promoted him to Second Lieutenant. This pattern repeated several times during the war, and McKinley eventually mustered out as captain and brevet major of the same regiment in September 1865

 

(2010) Enlarge Colored Soldiers monument at Logan's Square, Philadelphia

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