Pontiac City Cemetery Civil War Memorial - Pontiac, Illinois - American Civil War Monuments and Memorials on Waymarking.com

The memorial is has a marble statue of a uniformed Union soldier standing at parade rest with his rifle barrel held in both hands in front of him with the but of the rifle resting at his feet. The statue stands on a red granite pedestal inscribed as follows:

In Memory Of
Our
Missing Heroes
1861 - 1865

Erected By
Post No. 105
Dept. Ills G.A.R
And
W.R.C. No. 15
1901

The memorial is surrounded by several Civil War veteran graves.

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