First Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment Monument - Chickamauga Naional Battlefield
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The First Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment Monument is located on Genn-Viniard / Vittetoe Chickamauga Road near driving tour stop 6, Chickamauga National Battlefield Park.
Waymark Code: WMAYA9
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 03/11/2011
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The monument depicts a saddled, rider less horse carved out of a granite boulder. The horse is seen from the side, with its front proper right foreleg bent and lifted. The stirrup on the left swings back, there is no stirrup in the right. Below the horse on the front is a bronze medallion of the State of Wisconsin seal. A plaque in the back of the monument description the units activities during the battle. The sculpture sits on a two tiered rough-edged base.
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Front:
First Wisconsin Cavalry
2nd Brigade 1st Division
Cavalry Corps.
Plaque on the back:
This regiment, Col. Oscar H. LaGrange commanding, crossed the Tennessee River September 2nd 1863, taking part in all Calvary movements in the vicinity of Lookout Mountain until September 19th when it became severely engaged with the enemy in front of Crawfish Springs about the upper fords of the Chickamauga together with the other commands it guarded the right of the Army and protected the Field Hospital at Crawfish Springs until 5 P.M. of the 20th when it assisted in removing the wounded from that point, and conducting the trains in safety to Chattanooga Valley and toward Chattanooga.
TITLE: First Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment Monument`
ARTIST(S): Contractor:American Granite Company
DATE: 1894
MEDIUM: mixed: Monument: granite and bronze; Seal: bronze; Base: granite
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS GA000638
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
on Genn-Viniard / Vittetoe Chickamauga Road near driving tour stop 6, Chickamauga National Battlefield Park.
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
The horse has a bronze bridle. -- there is no bridle. Also stirrups and text.
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