The Soldier's Monument, Sutton, Nebraska
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N 40° 36.608 W 097° 51.564
14T E 596490 N 4496104
This monument, in the Sutton City park, includes a statue of a Union Soldier and two Howitzer cannons
Waymark Code: WM1C0N
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 03/30/2007
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The history of this monument is related on a nearby Nebraska Historical Marker, Waymark WM18H4
In 1879, the George G. Meade Post 19, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Nebraska, was founded in Sutton by twenty former Union soldiers. In 1894 the Union Soldiers' Monument and Memorial Association of Sutton was formed to erect a monument to veterans. The association petitioned the government for surplus cannon and received two 24-pounder flank howitzers. In 1909,the cannons were placed on a granite base but the monument was never finished. The cannons were fired on July 4th each year from 1910 until the 1920's.
A committee to complete the monument was formed in 2000 and in 2001 a bronze statue of a Civil War soldier, designed and sculpted by Vern Friesen, artist, rancher and farmer, of Henderson, Nebraska completed the monument. The statue is flanked by the two howitzers.
The inscriptions on the base of the Statue are:
Front: George G. Meade Post 19, Grand Army of the Republic, 1861 Civil War Memorial 1865
South Side: In Memory of Our Country's Defenders
North Side: Honor The Noble Dead
A separate plaque relates details about the cannons.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 06/01/2001
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: George G. Meade Post 19, Grand Army of the Republic, The Union Soldiers' Monument and Memorial Association of Sutton , and The Civil War Memorial Completion Committee
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union
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