CIVIL WAR MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS
LINN COUNTY, KANSAS
Mine Creek, Linn CountyBattlefield
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Type: Granite Monument Description: A granite monument is inscribed: "Battle of Mine Creek ~ Upon this rolling prairie and across Mine Creek occurred the largest Civil ~ War battle in Kansas. It also was one ~ of the largest cavalry battles of the Civil ~ War. Nearly 8,000 Confederate soldiers ~ clashed with 2,500 Union troops. The ~ battle lasted less than one hour. Many ~ Confederates were captured and more than ~ 600 were killed or wounded. Union ~ casualties numbered approximately 120. ~ This decisive Union victory contributed ~ to the defeat of the 1864 Confederate ~ invasion of Missouri and Kansas." "This hallowed ground has been preserved ~ so that present and future generations of ~ Americans may remember the sacrifices ~ of the soldiers of the Blue and Gray." "This monument is placed in commemoration~ of the brave soldiers who fought and died ~ in the Battle of Mine Creek on October 25, 1864." References: reported by DE McGovern Photographs: DE McGovern, February 13, 2005 SUV Registry Status: Secondary Memorial no SUVCW documentation planned |
Mound City, Linn CountyCemetery
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Type: Granite Soldier Statue Description: There is an 18' monument, including a figure of a private soldier standing with "arms at rest", in the GAR section of the cemetery. The front of the supporting column is engraved: "Erected By The ~ United States ~ 1889. ~ In Memory Of The ~ Officers And Soldiers, ~ Buried Within This Cemetery, ~ Who Gave Their Lives In ~ Defence Of The Union". References: Baruch and Beckman, 1978, Martin, 1910, SOS! 1994 Photographs: RM Thies, 1994-5 DE McGovern, February 13, 2005 J Birket, February 2005 SUV Registry Status: Primary Memorial SUVCW documentation needed |
Pleasanton, Linn CountyCemetery
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Type: Granite Monument Description: A granite monument is inscribed: "They Sought No Glory ~ But Their Country's Good ~ In Memory Of Those ~ Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice In Defense ~ Of Their Country ~ We Honor All" "Sponsored By The ~ U.S. Army Mothers V.F.W. ~ And American Legion Of ~ Pleasanton ~ 1948". The back side is engraved: "Dedicated To All ~ Men And Women ~ Who Served Their ~ Country In War ~ And Peace." References: reported by DE McGovern Photographs: DE McGovern, February 13, 2005 SUV Registry Status: Secondary Memorial no SUVCW documentation planned |
Pleasanton, Linn CountyCemetery
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Type: Granite Monument Description: A granite monument is inscribed : "Greater Love Has No Man Than This ~ That A Man Lay Down His Ife For ~ His Friends ~ Dedicated With Love And Honor ~ To The Men Who Served In The ~ Armed Forces And Paid The Supreme ~ Sacrifice In The Cause Of Humanity". Below this inscription are the pictures of Cpl John L. Davis and CN Patterson, both marked Vietnam 1967. References: reported by DE McGovern Photographs: DE McGovern, February 13, 2005 SUV Registry Status: Secondary Memorial no SUVCW documentation planned |
Trading Post, Linn CountyCemetery
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Type: Granite Monument Description: The monument to the Marais des Cygne Massacre is inscribed on all four sides. The inscriptions follow: "On The 19th Day Of May, 1858, The Men Whose ~ Names Appear On This Monument Were Taken ~ From Their Daily Avocations By A Band Of ~ Armed Border Ruffians And Marched To A ~ Deep Ravine Four Miles East From This ~ Place And There Shot And Left For Dead. ~ Their Only Offense Was ~ They Were Free State Men". "Rev. B.L. Read ~ John F. Campbell ~ William Colpetzer ~ Michael Robertson ~ Patrick Ross ~ William Hairgrove ~ Asa Hairgrove ~ Charles Snider ~ William A. Stilwell ~ Amos Hall ~ Austin Hall". "From The Hearths Of Their Cabins, ~ The Fields Of Their Corn, ~ Unwarned And Unweaponed, ~ The Victims Were Torn, ~ By The Whirlwind Of Murder ~ Swooped Up And Swept On ~ To The Low Reedy Fen-Lands, ~ The Marsh Of The Swan ~~ On The Lintels Of Kansas ~ That Blood Shall Not Dry; ~ Henceforth The Bad Angel ~ Shall Harmless Go By; ~ Henceforth To The Sunset, ~ Unchecked On Her Way, ~ Shall Liberty Follow ~ The March Of The Day". "(Ad Astra Per Astra ~ Erected 1888)". References: reported by DE McGovern Photographs: DE McGovern, May 4, 2002 SUV Registry Status: Secondary Memorial no SUVCW documentation planned |
