Soldiers' Monument - Seymour, Connecticut - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

 Inscription:

This Monument Is Erected
By The Citizens Of Seymour
In Honored Memory Of The
Defenders of Our Country
1861 - 1865

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Description of memorial from Smithsonian:

"The monument consists of a cylindrical base, pedestal, and peristyle after the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates. It is topped with the figure of a soldier standing at parade rest. He wears a uniform consisting of a long coat, a cape buttoned at the top and a cap. The moustached figure holds the barrel of a rifle with both hands. The butt of the gun rests in front of his proper right foot. His proper left foot is forward and bent at the knee. The monument is encircled by a wrought-iron fence. Three of the four corner positions around the monument are occupied by 11 ft. 4 in. long cannon mounted on cut stone. The fourth corner has a triangular pile of cannonballs on a cut stone base.

The idea for the monument originated with the Citizen's Monument Committee, their first meeting held on May 1, 1903. The total cost of the work was $2,935 dollars; the first $100 dollars was donated by Upson Post G.A.R., and the Womens Relief Corps donated 700 dollars. The date and placement of the cannon and cannonballs is uncertain. They may have been a later addition to the monument."

TITLE: Soldiers' Monument ARTIST(S): Fox-Becker Granite Company, fabricator. DATE: 1904. Dedicated June 11, 1904. MEDIUM: Granite CONTROL NUMBER: IAS CT000108 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: French Memorial Park Spruce Street] Seymour, Connecticut DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None noted

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