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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 -- Kansas -- Clay Center
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    (Soldier), (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    (Soldier), (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Clay Center Civil War Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    Installed 1911.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: gray granite; Base: gray and black granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. H. 6 ft.; Base: approx. H. 24 ft.
    Inscription: 
    (On front midsection of base:) 1911/ERECTED/BY/PHIL SHERIDAN/POST NO. 88/GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC/BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/(G.A.R. emblem)/THE MEN IN WHOSE HONOR THIS/MONUMENT WAS ERECTED WERE LED/BY THE FIRES OF LIBERTY/THEY FOUGHT FOR NO NORTH/NO SOUTH, NO EAST, NO WEST, BUT FOR/ONE GLORIOUS AND UNITED COUNTRY (On front lower section of base, raised letters:) IN MEMORY OF THE/VOL. DEFENDERS/OF THE UNION/1861 - 1865
    Description: 
    A Civil War soldier standing at parade rest, with left leg forward. The soldier holds the upper end of his rifle with both hands, left hand above his right hand, with the hands touching. The butt of the rifle is placed on the ground near the outside of the soldiers proper right toe, with the rifle turned so that the trigger guard faces outward to his right. The soldier has a prominent mustache, but is otherwise clean-shaven. He wears a cap, and a cape buttoned at the neck. The cape is unbuttoned from the waist down and is flung back on the proper left, as if blown by wind. The cape is encircled by a belt with a bayonet hanging from its proper left side. The sculpture is placed atop a tall multitiered base that is surrounded by a low wall with a limestone ball decorating each of the four corners. The base is decorated with bas-reliefs of crossed sabers; an American flag; and crossed cannon. A band of five-pointed stars, six to each side, extends around the upper midsection of the base.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Civil War
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas -- Clay Center
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Clay County, Clay County Courthouse, Clay Center, Kansas
    Remarks: 
    Erected by Phil Sheridan Post No. 88 of the Grand Army of the Republic by public subscription in memory of the volunteers that defended the Union during the Civil War.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas 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 KS000493
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