23rd Regiment Boulder

• This war memorial stands at the head of Winter Street, near the Salem Common at Merritt Triangle. (37 Washington Square North)

• This granite boulder commemorates the service of the 23rd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War. The 58 ton boulder was brought from Salem Neck in 1905.
• The bronze tablet records the names of the thirteen engagements in which the regiment took part. The cannon within the enclosure formerly were in front of the old Cadet Armory.
• Approximately 155 men from Salem died in the Civil War, 113 were wounded, forty-seven were taken prisoners of war and confined in Rebel Prisons. The number of enlistments in the Army and the Navy, from Salem was over 3,000 men.
• To see other Veterans Memorials in Salem visit this page on Salem Links and Lore, Salem Veterans

See Also

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Civil War Monuments

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Veterans
• Veterans Memorials and Parks p.7

• Patriots of Salem : Roll of Honor of the officers and Enlisted Men during the late Civil War, from Salem, Mass. 1877

• Visitor's Guide to Salem 1953 ed., p. 174.

• 23rd Regiment Boulder MACRIS site

• Salem: Statued and Monumental a film by Erik K. Smith