Landmark #3: Cannonball Hill Monuments

• Fairview Park (on hill by Dreamland Lake on the way to the tennis courts)

Bonus Round:

Although it’s not exactly in plain view, another significant Civil War monument sits at the back of a Decatur cemetery, on a forlorn hill overlooking the water treatment plant. Erected in 1908 as a "Memorial to the Unknown Dead of the Civil War" by the Dunham Woman's Relief Club, this statue of a barefoot woman stares downcast as she appears to drop flowers on the graves that encircle her.

Simple white markers indicate the final resting places of scores of Civil War soldiers hailing from Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania units. Some are marked unknown. Some are unmarked, including those of many Confederate soldiers.

Trains continuously passed through Decatur during the war, often filled with wounded soldiers. One such train carried carloads of Confederate captives en route to a Chicago prison camp. When many of these prisoners contracted yellow fever and died, the train stopped in Decatur for their burial. Volunteers were enlisted to dig graves, and the soldiers were interred in an unmarked section of the cemetery. This cemetery is believed by many to be haunted.

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Bonus Round: Memorial to the Unknown Dead of the Civil War

• Greenwood Cemetery, Block 12