UNION COUNTY CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL CANNONS
TO CELEBRATE THE NEW COURTHOUSE IN 1883 COL. W.L. CURRY OBTAINED TWO CANNONS USED IN BATTLE TO COMMEMORATE THE SERVICE OF UNION COUNTY CITIZENS IN THE CIVIL WAR. EACH WAS RIFLED, TO SHOOT A SHELL RATHER THAN A BALL. IN 1898 THE CANNONS WERE REMOUNTED AND NAMED "DEWEY" AND "SAMPSON" IN HONOR OF THE TWO U.S. ADMIRALS WHO WERE VICTORIOUS IN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.
Listing Details
- Public
- CIVIL WAR AND SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
- Cannon War Memorials with Plaques
- 1883, 1898 AND 2008
- UNION COUNTY COURTHOUSE-COURT STREET AND SIXTH STREET
- 43040
- WILLIAM FISCHER JR.
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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