PENNSYLVANIA SALISBURY PRISON WAR MEMORIAL
TO COMMEMORATE THE PATRIOTIC DEVOTION, HEROISM, AND SELF-SACRIFICE OF THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS WHO DIED WHILE CONFINED AS PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE CONFEDERATE MILITARY PRISON AT SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA, DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION AND WERE INTERRED AMONG THE UNKNOWN UNION SOLDIERS AND SAILORS IN THE EIGHTEEN TRENCHES AT THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF THE MONUMENT.
Location
Address:
SALISBURY NATIONAL CEMETERY-GOVERNMENT ROAD
City:
SALISBURY
State:
North Carolina
Zip Code:
28144
Details
Memorial Type:
War Monuments
Access:
Cemetery
Wars Commemorated:
CIVIL WAR
Year Dedicated:
1907
Photograph By:
BILL COUGHLIN
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