Civil War Memorial - Bennington, VT
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N 42° 52.984 W 073° 12.583
18T E 646201 N 4749384
The Civil War memorial is located outside the Bennington Museum at 75 Main Street in Bennington, VT.
Waymark Code: WMM8D9
Location: Vermont, United States
Date Posted: 08/10/2014
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Mounted on an irregular cut, 80" by 100" by 20", granite block with a curved top are two bronze plaques. The 42" by 72" plaque on the front contains a bas-relief sculpture by William Gordon Huff that was cast by the Ellison Bronze Company in 1930. It depicts four officers, including James Hicks Wallbridge, mounted on horses reviewing the troops of the 2nd Vermont Regiment. On the sculpture is the inscription:
UNITED BY
A PURPOSE
TO PERPETUATE
THE UNION AND
LIBERTIES OF THE
PEOPLE
The back of the monument has a smaller plaque which contains the seal of the Grand Army of the Republic and the American Legion and is inscribed:
TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM BENNINGTON
WHOSE PATRIOTISM HELPED MAINTAIN AND PERPETUATE
THE UNION 1861 - 1865
A TRIBUTE BY
BENNINGTON POST 13,
AMERICAN LEGION
DEDICATED AT THE DEPARTMENT CONVENTION OF THE LEGION,
FIRST HELD IN BENNINGTON
AUGUST MDCCCCXXX