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Main Gate 202 Government Avenue [35°39’41sN, 80°28’28sW] |
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| The Pennsylvania Monument was erected in 1909, and stands 40 feet high on a granite base that is 20 feet by 20 feet. | In June 1908, the state of Maine erected a 25-foot high granite monument topped by a soldier, to commemorate its soldiers who perished here. |
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| The Federal Monument to the Unknown Dead is a granite obelisk that was commissioned by Congress in 1873.The monument, measuring 50 feet tall with a base of 18 feet, was built to honor the unknown soldiers who died in the Salisbury Confederate Prison. | Inscription on Federal Monument |
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| Markers in foreground, mass graves in background. From the number of bodies exhumed from a given space it was estimated that the number buried in these trenches was 11,700. | Markers of known |
