General Devens Memorial, (sculpture).

General Devens Memorial, (sculpture).

Potter, Edward Clark, 1857-1923, sculptor.

French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931, sculptor.

Andrews, Robert, carver.

Webb Granite Company, contractor.

General Devens Memorial, (sculpture).

1905-1906. Dedicated July 4, 1906.

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: stone.

Sculpture: approx. H. 25 ft.; Base: approx. H. 15 ft. 10 in. x W. 9 ft. 8 in.

(On front of base:) TO/GENERAL DEVENS/AND THE/MEN OF WORCESTER COUNTY/IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION/1861-1865 (On right side of base: names of towns and number of war dead) (On back of base:) CHARLES DEVENS/SOLDIER.ORATOR.JURIST/1820-1891/MAJOR THIRD BATTALION MASSACHUSETTS RIFLES/APRIL 1861/COLONEL FIFTEENTH REGIMENT MASS.VOL.INFANTRY/JULY 1861/BRIGADIER GENERAL UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS/APRIL 1862/BREVET MAJOR GEN - UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS/APRIL 1865/ASSOCIATE JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF MASS/APRIL 1867/ASSOCIATE JUSTICE SUPREME COURT OF MASS/APRIL 1867/ASSOCIATED JUSTICE SUPREME COURT OF MASS/OCTOBER 1873/ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES/MARCH 1877/ASSOCIATED JUSTICE SUPREME COURT OF MASS/1881-1891

(on left side of base:) MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS/THE FIFTEENTH TWENTY-FIRST TWENTY-FIFTH/THIRTY-FOURTH THIRTY-SIXTH FIFTY-FIRST/FIFTY THIRD AND FIFTY SEVENTH REGIMENTS/COMPANIES E F AND K IN FORTY SECOND REGIMENT/COMPANIES D E F AND H IN FOURTH REGIMENT/COMPANY F IN FIRST BATTALION HEAVY ARTILLERY/MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER MILITIA/THIRD BATTALION RIFLES COMPANY B WORCESTER LIGHT/INFANTRY IN SIXTH REGIMENT TENTH UNATTACHED COMPANY.

An equestrian portrait of General Devens wearing a heavy coat over his Civil War uniform. With his proper right hand he holds his hat and his horse's reins. The sculpture is mounted on a large rectangular base.

Portrait male -- Devens, Charles -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Brigadier General

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Outdoor Sculpture -- Massachusetts -- Worcester

Administered by City of Worcester, Parks, Recreation, and Cemetery Department, 125 Green Hill Parkway, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605

Located Court House, Main & Highland Streets, Worcester, Massachusetts

The memorial was sponsored by Senator George Hoar in honor of General Charles Devens and those from Worcester County who died in the Civil War. The monument was funded by citizens of fifty-eight towns in the Worcester County. The cost of the granite work was $5,700.

Beall, Pamela E., "Artworks in Our Parks: An Inventory of Public Memorials," Worcester, MA: City of Worcester, 1986.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1994.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MA0140, 1989.

Monumental News, Sept., Dec. 1905,

Beall, Pamela E., "Artworks in Our Parks: An Inventory of Public Memorials," Worcester, MA: City of Worcester, 1986, pg. 16.

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.

Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

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