To remember the county’s African American Union soldiers, women of the black community, many of them the wives and widows of those men, erected one of the few such monuments in the nation on Academy Green in 1910. Coordinated by First Baptist Church and the United Daughters of Union Veterans, the monument is inscribed “In Memory of the Colored Union Soldiers Who Fought in the War of 1861-1865.”
Installation Date:
01 Jan 1910
Organization Responsible for Installation:
United Daughters of Veterans
Memorial War Era(s):
- Other
Memorial Condition:
Good
Website:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/monument/117
Location:
Corner of Dobbs/King St. and Hyde Park St., known as Academy Green in Hertford, NC.