[4] Nicholas Fejervary offered to donate $1,300 if the monument would be erected to Scott County's Civil War dead instead.

[3] It is topped by a statue of a Union soldier, which faces south towards the Mississippi River in the valley below.

The monument's foundation is at least 7 feet (2.1 m) in the ground and is composed of Nauvoo stone and it rests on a cement floor.

The west panel bears a quote from General H. W. Halleck: "Proved themselves the Bravest of the Brave".

The east panel's quote is from Inspector General W. E. Strong: "An Honor to their Friends at Home, to their State and their Country * * * a Terror to their Foes."

The battles listed are: Shilo, Donelson, Iuka, Wilsons Creek, Fort Blakeley, Corinth, Prairie Grove and Vicksburg.