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More Smithsonian Searches     Who else has...     Milmore, Martin,     Ames Manufacturing Company,     William Blake and Company,     History -- United States     Figure male -- Full length     Occupation -- Military     Dress -- Uniform     Object -- Weapon     Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Woburn     Sculpture

Civil War Memorial, (sculpture). Artist:  Milmore, Martin, 1844-1883, sculptor. Ames Manufacturing Company, founder. William Blake and Company, founder. Title:  Civil War Memorial, (sculpture). Dates:  1869. Dedicated Oct. 14, 1869. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: bronze; Base: Concord granite. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. H. 10 ft.; Base: approx. H. 30 ft. x W. 5 ft. Inscription:  Milmore / Ames Foundry (On bronze plaque on front of base, in reaised letters:) WOBURN HONORS THE MEMORY/OF HER SONS/WHO FELL IN THE WAR FOR THE/UNION AND FREEDON/1861-1865/THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY LIVES/IN THE ASHES OF ITS DEFENDERS (On bronze plaque on left side of base, in raised letters:) KILLED IN BATTLE (list of 26 names) (On bronze plaque on back of base, in raised letters:) KILLED OF DISEASE (list of 27 names) (On plaque of right side of base, in raised letters:) DIED OF WOUNDS (list of 17 names) DIED IN/REBEL PRISONS (list of 16 names) signed Founder's mark appears. Description:  A standing bronze figure of a Civil War soldier dressed in an overcoat, his proper right hand resting on the muzzle of a gun that he holds vertically by his proper right side. The sculpture rests atop a tall square base adorned with bronze inscription plaques on all four sides. A low rail fence surrounds the sculpture. Subject:  History -- United States -- Civil War Figure male -- Full length Occupation -- Military -- Soldier Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform Object -- Weapon -- Gun Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Woburn Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Town of Woburn, Woburn, Massachusetts Located Woburn Common, Main & Pleasant Streets, Woburn, Massachusetts Remarks:  The memorial commemorates the men of Woburn who served in the Civil War. The town appropriated $10,000 for the memorial with $6,000 going to the sculptor. The figure was cast by Ames Manufacturing Company and the base plaques were cast by William Blake and Company. IAS files contain a list of the names appearing on the base plaques. IAS files also conatin a copy of the Massachusetts Historical Commission Form C - Monuments questionnaire dated Nov. 3, 1973; a newspaper article from the Woburn Daily Times, July 7, 1973; and a transcription of a newspaper article from the Middlesex County Journal, Oct. 14, 1969. References:  Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1997. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS 87740307   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture 87740307 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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