The Department of Michigan

Civil War Memorials Project

The various Camps of Michigan's Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War are actively involved in surveying the State's Civil War related monuments and memorials.

We need your help!!

For more information about how you can help, please contact Leonard Schaeffer, CC, the Department Civil War Memorials Officer.

The Department Memorials Website is currently unavailable. We are working to re-establish the site.

Registration Form - for Civil War Monuments and Memorials.  This is a .PDF format form to submit basic information about a monument or memorial. 

Instructions: 

After opening the document, go to FILE – SAVE and then save to a destination on your computer. 

Fill our form and then go to FILE – SAVE AS; name the file using the memorial’s name and city and then save to a destination on your computer.

Send file as an attachment to Leonard Schaeffer, CC.  Attach digital photos as well.

Guns of the Civil War

If you are looking for where our state has CANONS and GUNS on display from the Civil War, the links below are your ticket to finding them. This is a listing of the located Civil War guns, divided between Army and Naval Guns
Army Guns
Naval Guns

Michigan Battlefield Monuments

We are looking for information and photos on Michigan Monuments located at Civil War Battlefields. Please see our Battlefield Monuments Page for more information.

Michigan Civil War Monuments

During the Civil War Centennial commemoration in 1961-1965, George May of the Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission compiled a list of Civil War monuments and memorials in Michigan.  It was not as complete a listing of memorials as the SUVCW hopes to accomplish - we estimate over 435 such memorials exist - but is a valuable survey of the field as of that time. We have scanned in that portion of the text listing the monuments by county.

As an example of why it is so important that the Civil War Monuments and Memorials Project move forward is that a number of the memorials on the 1965 list no longer exist.  This is due to primarily a lack of care – first in maintaining the memorial and the secondly in the public’s interest in remembering the Civil War.