GAR Monument, (sculpture).

GAR Monument, (sculpture).

May, A. C., sculptor.

GAR Monument, (sculpture).

Dodge Post Monument, (sculpture).

Dedicated Nov. 25, 1898 and May 30, 1899.

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Overall: approx. 17 ft. x 3 ft. 6 in. x 3 ft. 6 in.

(On base of sculpture, upper right, west side:) A. C. May (On front of shaft:) IN MEMORY OF (GAR membership badge) OUR COMRADES / A.W. DODGE POST 44/ERECTED NOV. 24, 1898 (names of committee members) (On shaft, left side:) LOYALTY/ON FAME'S ETERNAL CAMPING GROUND/THEIR SILENT TENTS ARE SPREAD/BUT GLORY GUARDS WITH SOLEMN ROUND/THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD (On shaft, right side:) FRATERNITY (list of officers) (On back of shaft, on bronze plaque:) CHARITY (list of names of the 198 members of the GAR Post 44 members) signed

A marble figure of an older man wearing a traditional GAR uniform with membership badge and hat. He stands atop a marble shaft, his right arm resting at his waist, his right foot forward slightly. The front of the marble shaft is adorned with a relief carving of the GAR membership badge consisting of a star-shaped medal suspended from a flag ribbon with an eagle pin at the top.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Figure male -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Dress -- Uniform

Outdoor Sculpture -- Maryland -- Baltimore

Administered by United States Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration, 810 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia 20420

Located Loudon Park National Cemetery, 3445 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21228

The monument cost $1,200 and was erected by the A. W. Dodge Post No. 44, Department of Maryland, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in memory of the member of the post. IAS files contain copies of articles from: Baltimore American, Sept. 24, 1898; Nov. 24, 1898; Nov. 25, 1898; May 30, 1899; May 31, 1903; and May 31, 1907 and Baltimore Sun, Nov. 24, 1898; Nov. 25, 1898; and May 29, 1899. IAS files also include an excerpt from Susan Cooke Soderberg's "Lest We Forget" (White Mane Publishing Co.,1995), pg. 45.

National Cemetery Administration Memorials Inventory Project, 2002-2005.

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