Soldiers and Sailors Monument - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Posted by: Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
N 43° 01.768 W 087° 58.911
16T E 420009 N 4764554
Civil War monument in the Wood National Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Waymark Code: WMAP5J
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 02/06/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Sprinterman
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The memorial placed in 1903 when the cemetery was part of the Northwest Branch Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The monument was sponsored by the Soldiers and Sailors Association and was sculpted by Joseph Shaver Granite and Marble Co. of Milwaukee. The granite monument is 60-foot tall and has a soldier in a Union uniform. The monument is inscribed:

Erected
By The Soldiers
And Sailors Monument
Association
NWBA For D.V.S
Jan 1903

The Union Forever

In Memory Of
Comrades Buried
In This Home Cemetery

1861 - 1865

Date Installed or Dedicated: 01/01/1903

Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Soldiers and Sailors Association

Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Union

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