Chapel for the Union Dead

Glendale Cemetery Akron Ohio has a memorial chapel for the Union war dead. The ground was dedicated on Memorial Day 1875, and the formal opening was on the next Memorial Day. It is a beautiful building, inside and out.

There is a statue for the unknown dead.

The news has much on confederate memorials now. The United States Union survived the war, the rebellion was put down, the insurgents lost. We should consider and honor those that died to preserve the country. A previous post [click] was especially poignant, concerning the deaths of two local boys.

The window pictured supra is dedicated to Henry N. Smith who died at the Confederate Prison Camp Andersonville Georgia, and to Eugene D. Smith who "died from the effects of war" in 1868.

The left window below remembers three Voris Brothers who died, one in service, one from exposure as prisoner, and one of starvation at Andersonville. The right window is for the first Akron soldier that died in the war, William Palmer Williamson.