Civil War - Atlas Obscura
Places near me Random place

184 Items Tagged

Civil War

Share Tweet
Sharpshooter tree memorial
Washington, D.C.

Sharpshooter's Tree

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.
The Tombstone House.
Petersburg, Virginia

The Tombstone House

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Fort Washington, Maryland

Fort Foote Rodman Guns

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.
Mary Walker, with her Medal of Honor on her lapel, 1873.
19th century

The Unconventional Life of Mary Walker, the Only Woman to Have Received the U.S. Medal of Honor

Dress reformer, women's rights activist, and all-around pioneer.
Anika Burgess September 27, 2017
Corporal Chas Ippel on the right, died on July 26, 1863.
Arlington, Virginia

Headstone-Eating Trees

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.
The Ghost Church, fall 2016.
Mechanicsville, Virginia

The Ghost Church

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.
Oscar James Dunn, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
history

Oscar Dunn, America's Forgotten First Black Lieutenant Governor

The New Orleans pioneer's legacy has been overshadowed, and an intended monument never built.
Chelsea Adams September 13, 2017
Permanently Closed
Nathan Bedford Forrest Sculpture
Nashville, Tennessee

Ugly Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.
The footbridge to the island.
Washington, D.C.

Theodore Roosevelt Island

The national park was once a plantation estate.
A soldier, an urn, and "Faith," all available from the 1882 Monumental Bronze Co. catalog.
statues

Those Mass-Produced Civil War Statues Were Meant to Stand Forever

The company behind one popular cookie-cutter statue advertised they would "last as long as the Pyramids of Egypt."
Cara Giaimo August 25, 2017
The heavy iron door is unlocked.
Washington, D.C.

Mount Zion Cemetery's Underground Railroad Shelter

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.
North to Freedom.
Brewer, Maine

Chamberlain Freedom Park

Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.
Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office.
Washington, D.C.

Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum

Before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had a tremendous humanitarian impact by locating thousands of missing soldiers.
Live artillery shells found at a Massachusetts library
libraries

Librarian Finds Live Civil-War Artillery Shells on Her First Day

But not even that could faze her.
Michael Waters July 21, 2017
Lincoln's secretary, John Hay, in 1862.
news

A Famous Letter Thought to Be Written by Lincoln Was Penned by His Secretary

N-gram tracing was used to reveal the author.
Kelsey Kennedy July 20, 2017
Print of Lincoln vs. print of a Calhoun engraving.
photography

The Great Lengths Taken to Make Abraham Lincoln Look Good in Portraits

One famous image of the president features a body that isn't his.
Michael Waters July 12, 2017
Confederate Mound.
Chicago, Illinois

Confederate Mound

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.
A Union soldier in the jaws of a dinosaur.
Natural Bridge, Virginia

Dinosaur Kingdom II

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.