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THE CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY PAGE |
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THE CIVIL WAR ARTILLERY PAGE |
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The sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were called upon to create monuments that illuminate the face of our Civil War battlefields and the squares of countless towns North and South. For artists trained in a classical tradition, the artilleryman's distinctive sponge-rammer furnished them with an almost irresistible opportunity to model their gunners on familiar figures from that tradition: St. George with his lance, Pallas with her staff of wisdom, or the Good Shepherd with his crook. Occasionally an entire artillery scene would be rendered in relief for a more painterly perspective.This page can't critique these works for their artistic quality, but merely offers a few pictures from the author's travels, for your amusement.
Click on a picture for a larger version.
1st Minnesota Battery, Shiloh
Iowa Monument, Vicksburg
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Hackley Park, Muskegon, Michigan
Loomis' Battery (A, 1st Michigan Lt. Art'y)
Chickamauga
South Carolina Monument, Chickamauga
Artillerymen from the Grant Monument
Capitol, Washington City
Battery B, 1st Ohio Lt. Art'y, Chickamauga
1st Ohio Light Artillery, Chickamauga
Georgia Monument, Chickamauga
Texas Monument, Vicksburg
Smith's Battery (4th NY Ind.)
Gettysburg
GAR Monument, Hart, MI[My thanks to Kathie Fraser for encouraging me to post this page, and for furnishing the photographs of the South Carolina and 1st Ohio monuments from Chickamauga.]
