Union Confederate Monument

The Union Confederate Monument, also known as the Unknown Confederate Gravesite Monument,[1][2] is an outdoor Confederate memorial installed in Kansas City, Missouri's Union Cemetery, in the United States.[3][4][5] The 15-foot (4.6 m) granite obelisk monument was erected by the U.S. government in 1911 to commemorate the 15 Confederate prisoners of war buried at the site.[2] The exact location of their individual graves is unknown. The memorial includes two bronze tablets displaying the names of the prisoners, who were captured during the Battle of Westport.[1][6]

Union Confederate Monument

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References
  1. "Union Confederate Monument Site - National Cemetery Administration". Cem.va.gov. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  2. "Union Confederate Monument Site--Civil War Era National Cemeteries: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary". Nps.gov. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. "Few firing complaints at Missouri's Confederate monuments: 'Just some guy on a horse'". Kansascity.com. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  4. "Burial Place of Fifteen Confederate Soldiers Historical Marker". Hmdb.org. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  5. "UNION CEMETERY HISTORICAL SOCIETY" (PDF). Kcparks.org. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
  6. "Kansas City". The New York Times. 26 October 1986. Retrieved 19 August 2017.


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