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 see this page on Links and Lore,

See Also

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Civil War Monuments

• Vertical File in Salem Collection - Veterans

• Civil War Monument City of Salem site

• 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