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Salisbury National Cemetery entrance

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From the main gate at Salisbury National Cemetery in Rowan County, North Carolina. This image was taken on March 15, 2014. It shows a stone wall attached to the iron wrought gate which allows entrance to the cemetery.

Pennsylvania Monument at Salisbury National Cemetery

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Created in 1910 the Pennsylvania Monument was built to honor prisoners from the Commonwealth who died at Salisbury prison. The Pennsylvania Monument did not attack the Confederate authorities and focused on peace.

United Daughters of the Confederacy marker, Salisbury National Cemetery

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The United Daughters of the Confederacy created a marker contextualizing Salisbury prison in the 1990s. Countering the Federal Monument, the UDC marker lowered the death toll at the prison from the impossibly high 11,700 to a more plausible 3,700.

Maine Monument, Salisbury National Cemetery

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Built in 1909 the Maine Monument was created to honor the Maine soldiers who died in Salisbury prison during the Civil War. Paid for by the Maine state legislature.

Federal Monument, Front Panel, Salisbury National Cemetery

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Main panel of the Federal Monument describing the impossible number of Salisbury prison dead.

Federal Monument side label

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The side panel for the Federal Monument describes the purpose of the memorial to "the memory of the unknown union soldiers who died in the confederate prison at Salisbury, NC."

Escape Attempt from Salisbury

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This image shows the escape attempt of US POWs at Salisbury prison in December 1864. The drawing