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SAN DIEGO COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
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CIVIL WAR/GAR MEMORIALS PROJECT
This is a very large project and we can use your assistance. If you know of a monument to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) or Civil War-related memorial (of any size or design) near you, we invite you to share this information with the SUVCW. Please contact our Department Civil War Memorials Officer with any information.
Department Civil War Memorials Officer - Kirby R. Morgan
E-mail: kirby_m2000@yahoo.com
Return to main Civil War Memorials page
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Location:
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego Co., CA
On Vallecito Creek Rd, 1.6 mi E of County Rd S2 (P.M. 43.1), 6.3 mi SE of Agua Caliente Springs, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
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Plaque - California State Historical Landmark No. 639
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Reported by:
Tad D. Campbell, May 2002
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_X_ Needs Investigation
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NO. 639 PALM SPRINGS - Here Mexican pioneers coming to California between 1862 and 1866 rested among the palms, here, too, came mountain men, the Army of the West, the Mormon Battalion, a boundary commission, '49ers, a railway survey team, the Butterfield Overland Mail stages, and the California Legion. This was the site of the Butterfield stage station built in 1858 by Warren F. Hall.
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Location:
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego Co., CA
Blair Valley, 0.5 mi E of County Rd S2 (P.M. 23.0), 5.8 mi S of State Hwy 78, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
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Plaque - California State Historical Landmark No. 647
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Reported by:
Tad D. Campbell, May 2002
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_X_ Needs Investigation
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NO. 647 BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL ROUTE - This pass, Puerta, between the desert and the cooler valleys to the north, was used by the Mormon Battalion, Kearny's Army of the West, the Butterfield Overland Mail stages, and emigrants who eventually settled the West. The eroded scar on the left was the route of the Butterfield stages, 1858-1861. The road on the right served as a county road until recent years.
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CLICK HERE TO HELP RESTORE MEMORIAL DAY!
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DONATIONS:
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War is a 501(c)(4) organization and is approved by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as an organization to which tax deductible gifts can be made pursuant to Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.
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Location:
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
San Diego Co., CA
On County Hwy S2 (P.M. 15.9), 0.9 mi NW of intersection of State Hwy 78, near Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
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Plaque - California State Historical Landmark No. 793
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Reported by:
Tad D. Campbell, May 2002
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_X_ Needs Investigation
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NO. 793 SAN FELIPE VALLEY AND STAGE STATION - Here the southern trail of explorers, trappers, soldiers, and emigrants crossed ancient trade routes of Kamia, Cahuilla, Diegueno, and Luiseño Indians. On the flat southwest across the creek, Warren F. Hall built and operated the San Felipe home station of the Butterfield Mail, which operated from 1858 to 1861. Later the station was used by Banning Stages and by the military during the Civil War.
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Location:
Oak Grove, San Diego Co., CA
State Hwy 79 (P.M. 49.3)
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Type:
Plaque - California State Historical Landmark No. 482
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Reported by:
Tad D. Campbell, May 2002
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_X_ Needs Investigation
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NO. 482 CAMP WRIGHT - Camp Wright, named for Brigadier General George Wright, United States Army, who commanded the Pacific Department and California District from 1861 to 1865, was first established October 18, 1861 on Warner's Ranch to guard the line of communication between California and Arizona. The camp was moved to this site by Major Edwin A. Rigg, First California Volunteers, about November 23, 1861 and was abandoned December 1866.
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Location:
Oak Grove, San Diego Co., CA
State Hwy 79 (P.M. 49.4), Oak Grove; USGS Quadrangle Sheet Name: Warner Springs.
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Plaque - California State Historical Landmark No. 502
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Reported by:
Tad D. Campbell, May 2002
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_X_ Needs Investigation
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NO. 502 OAK GROVE STAGE STATION - Oak Grove is one of the few remaining stations on the Butterfield Overland Mail route, which operated between San Francisco and two eastern terminals-St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee-from September 15, 1858 to March 2, 1861. During the Civil War the station was used as a hospital for nearby Camp Wright.
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Location:
Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego Co., CA
(specific location not given)
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Type:
Cannon, 3" ordnance rifle, M1841 C1864, Phoenix.
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Reported by:
Stark's List 1998 & 2002
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Location:
San Diego, San Diego Co., CA
700 block of Harbor-Market Sts.
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Plaque - California State Historical Landmark No. 523
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Reported by:
Tad D. Campbell, May 2002
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_X_ Needs Investigation
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NO. 523 SAN DIEGO BARRACKS - New San Diego was established as a quartermaster depot by Captain Nathaniel Lyon, 2nd U.S. Infantry, in1850-51 to supply military establishments in Southern California. The name of the post was changed from New San Diego to San Diego Barracks by General Orders No. 2, Military Division of the Pacific, San Francisco, April 5, 1879. San Diego Barracks continued to operate as a subpost of Fort Rosecrans until abandoned December 15, 1921.
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Location:
San Diego, San Diego Co., CA
Cabrillo Memorial Dr Point Loma, San Diego; USGS Quadrangle Sheet Name: La Jolla.
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Plaque - California State Historical Landmark No. 55
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Reported by:
Tad D. Campbell, May 2002
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NO. 55 FORT ROSECRANS NATIONAL CEMETERY - A burial ground before 1847, this graveyard became an Army post cemetery in the1860s. It is the final resting place for most who fell at San Pasqual in 1846, and for the USS Bennington victims of 1905. It became Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in 1934 and was placed under the Veterans Administration National Cemetery System in 1973. Over 50,000 who served the U.S. honorably in war and peace lie here.
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Location:
San Diego, San Diego Co., CA
Base of Ballast Point, S end of Rosecrans St, where historic markers are on a half circle, U.S. Naval Submarine Base, San Diego.
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Plaque - California State Historical Landmark No. 62
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Reported by:
Tad D. Campbell, May 2002
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_X_ Needs Investigation
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NO. 62 FORT ROSECRANS - President Millard Fillmore's executive order of 1852 created a U.S. Preserve on Point Loma. From 1870 to 1873 the coast artillery corpsmen evicted whalers from the site in order to begin the military installation. In 1899 it was named for William S. Rosecrans, Civil War general and California congressman. Major fortifications were constructed in 1891-1903 and 1941-1943. Transferred to the U.S. Navy in 1957, it became a submarine support facility.
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Location:
San Diego, San Diego Co., CA
(specific location not given)
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Type:
Grant monument
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Reported by:
Civil War Union Monuments, 1978 book, by Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War; & D. E. Darby, 25 Apr 2002
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Location:
San Diego, San Diego Co., CA
Balboa Naval Hospital (Bldgs 1 & 2)
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Cannon, 4.2" Navy Parrott rifle, WPF #425, Cast 1862
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Reported by:
Stark's List 1998 & 2002
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Location:
San Diego, San Diego Co., CA
United States Marine Corps Recruiting Depot, 77 Pre.
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Cannon, 12-pdr Dahlgren boat howitzer, Heavy, Cast 1864, Inspector TAH, about 750 pounds.
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Reported by:
Stark's List 1998 & 2002
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