The Chartiers Cemetery has a grand Civil War monument, and at the base of it the graves of dozens of Civil War soldiers are neatly regimented.
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Civil War Section, Chartiers Cemetery
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Civil War Monument, Chartiers Cemetery
The statue of a soldier looks very determined in a chunky 1880s way. When granite replaced marble as the material of choice for monument sculptors, it seems as though it took them a while to learn how to convey any subtlety in the harder stone.
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Gen. James Scott Negley Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
General James Scott Negley was an important figure in the Union Army, but perhaps his greatest claim to undying memory is that his sister married Thomas Mellon, guaranteeing that the Negleys would be intertwined with the richest family on earth. This picture has been donated to Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, so no permission is needed to use it for any purpose whatsoever.
