• Boy Scout volunteers placing flags in the Andersonville National Cemetery for Memorial Day

    Andersonville

    National Historic Site Georgia

Monuments in the Andersonville National Cemetery

Stone monument topped by brozne statute of a young soldier.

NPS/Andersonville NHS

The Connecticut Monument on a foggy morning in the National Cemetery.

The Andersonville National Cemetery includes the oldest and the youngest of the memorial monuments located in the park. Nine of the monuments commemorate Union soldiers who were imprisoned or perished at the Andersonville prison. The other three monuments are dedicated to the broader themes of the park, commemorating POWs in all or other wars as well as unknown soldiers.

Monuments located in the Andersonville National Cemetery include:
New Jersey Monument (1899)
Maine Monument (1904)
Pennsylvania Monument (1905)
Iowa Monument (1906)
Connecticut Monument (1907)
Indiana Monument (1908)
Illinois Monument (1912)
New York Monument (1914)
Minnesota Monument (1916)
Georgia Monument (1976)
Oddfellows Monument (1984)
Stalag XVII-B Monument (1989)

Did You Know?

Close-up of Red Cross symbol on the monument to Clara Barton at the historic prison site

Clara Barton accompanied the Army expedition which established of the National Cemetery at Andersonville. She raised the Stars and Stripes over the cemetery for the first time on August 17, 1865. More...