Monuments and Graves – Sites of Interest
William Swaim
(as it says on the plaque)
The devoted patriot, gallant
soldier and beloved comrade who fell mortally at the moment of victory in command of the 34th Indiana Volunteers at Champion Hill, Mississippi May 18, 1863
Buried at Ossian, Indiana
Colonel George Pride
Volunteer Engineer on Grant’s Staff
Belmont to Shiloh
Buried Mount Hope Cemetery
Huntington, Indiana
James R. Slack
47th Indiana Vol. Inf.
Led a Brigade at Champion Hill
Commanded the 13th Corps
in post-war Texas
Buried Mount Hope Cemetery
Huntington, Indiana
Lessel Long
Co. F. 13th Indiana Vol. Inf.
Author
“Twelve Months in Andersonville”
Buried Riverside Cemetery
Andrews, Indiana
Colonel Cyrus E. Briant
88th Indiana Vol. Inf.
Led a Brigade at Bentonville
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Buried Mount Hope Cemetery
Huntington, Indiana
Colonel Samuel Zent
13th Indiana Vol. Inf.
Ft. Fisher, NC
Buried Greenwood Cemetery
Roanoke, Indiana
Oldest Civil War monument in the county. In honor of the 27 “brave boys” from Polk Township who “lost their lives in defense of the nations honor” Erected 1868
Monument Cemetery
Polk Township
Huntington, Indiana
