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    		• Wehner, Herman,
     
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    		• Cartwright Brothers Granite Company,
     
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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Occupation -- Military
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Peterboro
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Soldiers Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Wehner, Herman, sculptor.
    Cartwright Brothers Granite Company, fabricator.
    Title: 
    Soldiers Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated July 4, 1893. Rededicated 1993.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: Sunapee granite; Base: Barre granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 6 ft. 4 in. x W. 24 in.; Base: approx. 7 x 5 x 5 ft. (10 tons).
    Inscription: 
    (On base, north face:) CHARITY/GAR/MEMORIAL/OUR COUNTRY'S DEFENDERS/1861-1865/PRESENTED TO THE TOWN OF/SMITHFIELD/BY AARON T. BLISS/JULY 4, 1893 (On base, right face:) FRATERNITY/THIS MONUMENT BUILT IN/MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO SERVED/IN THE WAR OF 1861-1865 THAT/THEIR EXAMPLE MAY SPEAK TO/COMING GENERATIONS (On base, left face:) ERECTED IN HONOR OF THE MEN/OF MADISON COUNTY WHO SERVED/THEIR COUNTRY IN THE WAR WHICH/PRESERVED THE UNION, DESTROYED SLAVERY AND MAINTAINED THE CONSTITUTION (On base, rear:) SMITHFIELD GAVE OF HER MEN/LET US HONOR THE GALLANT/SEVENTY-FIVE unsigned
    Description: 
    Uniformed Civil War soldier stands atop a tall tapered pedestal and base. The figure wears a long coat and cap and holds his rifle in front of him vertically with the butt by his proper right foot.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Civil War
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Peterboro
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Town of Smithfield, Peterboro, New York
    Located Main Street, Peterboro, New York
    Remarks: 
    Gift of Aaron T. Bliss, a Smithfield native, colonel in the Union Army and later a United States congressman and governor of Michigan. The sculpture is reportedly a replica of a piece which stands in a cemetery in Saginaw, Michigan. IAS files contain excerpts from the Peterboro Scrapbook, vol. 1, "The Borough of Peter," by Raymond P. Ernenwein (1970), the Peterboro Passport, 1993 and related articles from the Syracuse Post-Standard, May 11, 1983 and the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Aug. 5, 1993.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
    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 NY001827
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