California Volunteers, Spanish-American War Memorial - San Francisco, CA - Spanish-American War Memorials on Waymarking.com

A memorial sculpture by artist Douglas Tilden to the California Volunteers in the Spanish-American War Memorial stands on a median strip of Dolores Street at the intersection Market Street in San Francisco, California.

The inscription on the side of the base reads:

ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF SAN FRANCISCO IN HONOR OF THE CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898 "FIRST TO THE FRONT"

Douglas Tilden, lost his hearing at age five due to scarlet fever. He has been called the "Michelangelo of the West".

A biographical web site, describes the statue:

At the end of the Spanish-American War, when the troops returned, San Franciscans went wild. Sixty-five thousand dollars was raised, $25,000 of which was allocated for a memorial. Douglas Tilden won the national competition. California Volunteers, a bronze work sixteen feet high and ten feet long mounted atop a granite base ten feet high, stands at the corner of Market and Dolores Streets. The monument shows an American soldier, with pointed gun in one hand and a sword in the other, standing over a fallen comrade, a cannon nearby. Above them the goddess of war, Bellona, is astride the winged horse Pegasus.

Type of memorial: Statue Location: Median Strip Plaza of Dolores Street at Intersection with Market Street, San Francisco Public or private: Public Who placed it?: Citizens of San Francisco When was it placed?: 1903

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