Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).

Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).

Thomas Phillips & Sons Company, design firm.

American Bronze Company, founder.

Guidici Bros. & Company, fabricator.

Jno. Williams, Inc., founder.

Soldiers' Monument, (sculpture).

Dedicated Oct. 10, 1908.

Sculpture: bronze and Barre light gray granite.

Sculpture: approx. 36 x 11 x 11 ft. (170 lbs.).

(On midsection of column, raised letters:) GETTYSBURG (On lower front of column, raised lettering:) 1861-1865 (On bronze plaque on lower front of monument, raised letters:) IN COMMEMORATION/OF THE PATRIOTISM AND VALOR/OF THE MEN OF/WATERTOWN/WHO, IN THE HOUR OF PERIL,/OFFERED THEIR LIVES THAT THE/REPUBLIC MIGHT LIVE, THUS/WINNING THE GRATITUDE OF THEIR/FELLOW-CITIZENS, THE ADMIRATION/OF SUCCEEDING GENERATIONS AND/A PLACE AMONG THE NATION'S/HEROES; THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED/THAT THEIR EXAMPLE MAY SERVE/AS AN INSPIRATION TO HEROIC/DEEDS IN ALL COMING TIME. (On bronze plaque on lower section of monument, raised letters:) TWENTY THIRD REGIMENT/(List of twenty-nine names and related companies in two columns)/TWENTY NINTH COLORED REGIMENT/(List of thirteen names and related companies in two columns)/THIRTY FIRST REGIMENT/Co. B./WILLIAM MURRAY (On other bronze plaque on lower section of monument, raised letters:) FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY/(Name and company)/SIXTH REGIMENT/(Name and company)/SEVENTH REGIMENT/(List of four names and companies in two columns)/EIGHTH REGIMENT/(List of two names in two columns)/ELEVENTH REGIMENT/(List of three names and companies in two columns)/FOURTEENTH REGIMENT/(...transcription illegible) (On other bronze plaque on lower section of monument, raised letters: list of four regiments and list of names in two columns) unsigned

A bronze eagle with wings spread, atop a granite half-sphere, atop tall Corinthian column and octagonal base. The lower half of the column is decorated with a relief of two draped flags over three wreaths. The capital of the column features the shield of the United States.

History -- United States -- Civil War

Animal -- Bird -- Eagle

Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Watertown

Administered by Town of Watertown, Parks & Recreation Department, 37 DeForest Street, Watertown, Connecticut 06795

Located Manon A. Munson Memorial Park, 20 DeForest Street, Watertown, Connecticut

The largest section of the monument cost $1,585.70 and was fabricated by Guidici Bros. & Company of Barre, Vermont. The monument's base, die, column, and ball cost $1,500. The eagle cost $375 and was fabricated by the Jno. Williams, Inc. American Bronze Company supplied the plaques. For related information see: "Memorials of Marble Granite and Allied Stones for the Church Cemetery and Public Buildings," New Haven: Thomas Phillips & Son Company, 1931; and the record of Thomas Phillips & Son Company at the New Haven Colony Historical Society.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1994.

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