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The Union Square marker dedication took place on June 5, 2010. Photographs of Ohio Historical Marker, park fountain and Methodist Church, and Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.

Union Square marker text:

Side A :
"Union Square and Its…

Political cartoon depicting Union soldiers in Andersonville prison compared with the rebel leader, Jeff Davis at Fortress Monroe. This wood engraving was completed by Thomas Nast, a German-born cartoonist, who would later become known for his…

Daguerreotype of an unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait facing front. She is seated in a chair and holding doll.

Governors portrait of David Tod that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. He served as governor of Ohio from 1862 to 1864. As a Civil War Governor, Tod oversaw the recruitment of troops, established the Ohio Military Agency to aid Ohio soldiers and called…

General Thamas Francis Meagher led the Irish Brigade of the Army of the Potomac.

An unusual, three-part wood engraving attributing John Wilkes Booth's assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the influence of the proslavery secret society, the Knights of the Golden Circle. Lincoln was shot by Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending…

Cartoon drawing in three scenes shows the trial and aftermath of Clement L. Vallandigham, a former Congressman and a Copperhead or peace Democrat, who in 1863 was arrested and tried on charges of treason relating to a speech he made while…

This political cartoon illustrates that the true enemy to the Union were the Copperheads of the North.

Image notes: "View of the plain of Manassas looking towards the Bull Run Mts. from Genl. Thos F. Meaghers Hqs. Irish Brigade Camps in the distance log huts built by the Army of Virginia occupied by Genl. Richardson's Div. Sumner's Corps".