Downtown in Grand Rapids in Kent County, Michigan — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain

Photographed by Mark Smith, June 24, 2016

1. Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain Marker

Inscription. Top Side 1
Winchester

Top Side 2
Mission Ridge

Top Side 3
Antietam

Top Side 4
Petersburg

Middle Top Side 1
In honor of the
Soldiers
from
Kent County.
1861-1865.
Erected 1885.

Middle Top Side 2
Pluribus Unum
Tuebor
Siqueris Peninsulam Amanah
Circumspice

Middle Top Side 3
Grand Army of the Republic
1861 - Veteran - 1886

Middle Bottom Side 1
Woman's Mission of Mercy.

Middle Bottom Side 2
The War
for the Union
was right,
eternally right.
-Field

Middle Bottom Side 3
The Union
Must and shall be
preserved.
-Jackson

Let us have peace
this is a nation.
-Grant

Middle Bottom Side 4
A government
of the people
for the people
and by the people.
-Lincoln

Busts
Lincoln
Farragut
Garfield
Grant

Bottom
Fort Donelson
February 16, 1862.

Appomattox
April 8, 1865.

Mobile
March 30 - April 12, 1865.
Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861.

Fair Oaks
May 31 - June 1, 1862.

Vickersburg
June 22 - July 4, 1863.

New Orleans
April 24, 1862.

Atlanta
Sept. 2, 1864.

Yorktown
April 4 - May 4, 1862.

Monitor vs Merrimac
March 9, 1862.

Stone River
Jan. 2, 1863.

Port Royal
January 1, 1862.

Erected by Kent

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County Soldeirs’ Monument Association.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.

Location. 42° 57.807′ N, 85° 40.056′ W. Memorial is in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in Kent County. It is in Downtown. It is at the intersection of Division Avenue and Monroe Center Street NW, on the left when traveling south on Division Avenue. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 16 Monroe Center St NE, Grand Rapids MI 49503, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in West Michigan.

It is also in the American Midwest

and on the Great Lakes.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Monument Park (here, next to this marker); The Commandery Of The State Of Michigan (here, next to this marker); In Memory of Grand Army of Republic (here, next to this marker); Civil War Veterans Memorial (a few steps

Photographed by Mark Smith, June 24, 2016

2. Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain Marker

from this marker); Roger B. Chaffee (within shouting distance of this marker); Courthouse Square (within shouting distance of this marker); Combat Wounded Veterans Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Grand Rapids Korean War Memorial (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Grand Rapids.

Also see . . . National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Significance: Dedicated on September 15, 1885, in the presence of Civil War General Philip H. Sheridan, Governor Russell A. Alger, and thousands of citizens and visitors, many in town for the Seventeenth Annual Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, the Kent County Civil War Monument is one of Michigan's most imposing and artistically distinguished Civil War monuments and memorials. Created by the Detroit Bronze Company, the monument is the largest and most highly finished of the Civil War monuments in Michigan made of "white bronze," or pure zinc, and is, as far as is known today, the outstanding example in Michigan of the white bronze monuments and funerary art that appeared in the period

Photographed by Mark Smith, June 24, 2016

3. Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain Marker

from the 1870s to the early twentieth century. (Submitted on July 31, 2024, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.)

Photographed by Mark Smith, June 24, 2016

4. Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain Marker

Photographed by J.T. Lambrou, July 3, 2021

5. Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain Marker

Monitor vs Merrimac section-first ever naval ironclad battle on March 9, 1962. President Garfield pictured above

Civil War Monument & Fountain image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J.T. Lambrou, July 3, 2021

6. Civil War Monument & Fountain

Photographed by Mark Smith, June 24, 2016

7. Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain Marker

Photographed by Mark Smith, June 24, 2016

8. Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain Marker

Photographed by J.T. Lambrou, July 3, 2021

9. Kent County Civil War Monument & Fountain Marker

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 14, 2004