Allegheny Cemetery

The soldiers' lot is located in Section 33, lot 66, and consists of 303 individual interments. While most of the burials are Union Civil War soldiers, the lot also includes 15 Confederates and a small number of Spanish-American War veterans. Soldiers were originally interred in two places within Allegheny Cemetery, until the plot was donated to the federal government by the cemetery association. The stranger's field, also known as the potter's field, an area for the poor was also included. It is noted that all the remains were consolidated into the soldiers' lot in the 1870s.

Following the Civil War, the Allegheny County Ladies Memorial Association commissioned a local artist Fred Mayer to sculpt a monument for the soldier's Lot. It was erected in 1876, the 16-foot-tall limestone monument was dedicated in memory of those who died during the Civil War. The figure of a woman holding a wreath with her head bowed sits atop the monument, with four sculpted cannons located on the monument base. Two small cannons mounted on concrete bases mark the front of the soldiers' lot. Allegheny Cemetery, including the National Cemetery Administration's soldiers' lot, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 1980.