Unknown Soldiers Monument
In 18 trenches, just south of this spot, rest the bodies of 11,700 soldiers of the United States Army, who perished during the years 1864 and 1865 while held by the Confederate Military Authorities as prisoners of war in a stockade near this place.
[ Right of Monument ]
“They died that their country might live.”
[ Left of Monument ]
“For our country ’tis a bliss to die.”
[ Rear of Monument ]
This monument was erected by Act of Congress approved March 3, 1873 to the memory of the unknown Union soldiers who died in the Confederate Prison at Salisbury, N.C.
Marker is on Government Road when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
