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    		• Mulligan, Charles J.,
     
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    		• Zimmerman, W. Carbys,
     
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    		• Trigg Marble & Granite Company,
     
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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Figure group
     
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    		• Allegory -- Place
     
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    		• Occupation -- Education
     
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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 -- Georgia -- Andersonville
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Illinois Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Mulligan, Charles J., 1866-1916, sculptor.
    Zimmerman, W. Carbys, 1856-1932, architect.
    Trigg Marble & Granite Company, contractor.
    Title: 
    Illinois Monument, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Illinois State Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Dedicated Dec. 20, 1912 or Dec. 20, 1913.
    Digital Reference: 
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    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze and marble; Base: Montello granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 8 x 4 x 4 ft.; Base: approx. 10 x 24 x 5 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On front of base:) (Center:) ERECTED BY THE/STATE OF ILLINOIS/IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE/PATRIOTIC DEVOTION OF HER SONS/WHO SUFFERED AND DIED IN THE/MILITARY PRISON AT ANDERSONVILLE, GA./1864-1865 (On back of bench, front left side:) "WE HERE HIGHLY RESOLVE THAT THESE DEAD SHALL/NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN-THAT THIS NATION, UNDER/GOD, SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM-AND/THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE,/FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH."/(GETTYSBURG ADDRESS)/ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (On back of bench, front right side:) "THE MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY, STRETCHING FROM/EVERY BATTLEFIELD AND PATRIOT GRAVE TO EVERY/LIVING HEART AND HEARTHSTONE ALL OVER THIS/BROAD LAND, WILL YET SWELL THE CHORUS OF THE/UNION, WHEN AGAIN TOUCHED, AS SURELY THEY WILL/BE, BY THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE."/(FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS)/ABRAHAM LINCOLN. unsigned
    Description: 
    The memorial consists of rectangular Montello granite base topped with an allegorical bronze figure of Columbia with a young boy and girl. Columbia wears long robes, a breastplate, and a wreath on her head. She holds a sword in her proper left hand and raises her proper right hand over the children. The children are dressed in school clothes and gaze ahead in the direction in which Columbia points. The boy, on the proper right, carries a satchel over his proper right shoulder and holds a cap in his proper left hand. The girl wears a dress with a bow and carries a book in her proper left hand.
    The sculpture is mounted in the center of a rectangular base adorned with a bench along one side. At either end of the base is a marble figure of an elderly man representing veterans of the Civil War. Each man is in uniform with his head slightly bowed and his arm resting on the top of the base. A bronze circular seal framed by foliage is attached to each end of the base.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Civil War
    Figure group
    Allegory -- Place -- America
    Occupation -- Education -- Student
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Andersonville
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, District of Columbia
    Located Andersonville National Historic Site, 496 Cemetery Road, Andersonville, Georgia 31711
    Remarks: 
    The State of Illinois appropriated $15,000 for sculpture in May of 1907. The sculpture was installed in memory of 889 Illinois soldiers who died at Andersonville Prison during the Civil War. The sculpture was designed collaboratively by the artist and state architect W. Carbys Zimmerman. The sculpture was cleaned and waxed in 1992. IAS files contain an article from Southern Living (June 1993): pg. 8; an Andersonville Official Map and Guide; a National Park Service Classified Structure Field Inventory Report, Dec. 1975 (gives dedication date as Dec. 20, 1913); and a related excerpt from Bill Burnett's "Andersonville Monuments," Andersonville National Historic Site Library (gives dedication date as Dec. 20, 1912).
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia survey, 1993.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, GA0020, 1989.
    Monumental News, Jan. 1910; May 1910; Jan. 1913.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Monumental News, May 1910, pg 357.
    Monumental News, Jan. 1913, cover.
    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 GA000598
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