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Related Historical Markers
Wilmington National Cemetery
Frank Leslie's Our Soldier in the Civil War (1884)
Marker detail: Union Troops in Wilmington, March 1865
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| | Civil War Wilmington Wilmington was a minor Atlantic port when the Civil War started and the U.S. Navy did little to secure it. In fall 1862, the Confederate Ordnance Bureau designated it as the port of entry for its blockade runners. At night . . . — — Map (db m223962) HM |
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Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 an April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m77249) WM |
| | Black soldiers & white officers in Union army, 1863-1865. About 500 involved in Wilmington campaign buried here. — — Map (db m77251) HM |
| | Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, . . . — — Map (db m222492) HM |
May. 6, 2024
