Calhoun Veterans Monument, (sculpture).

Calhoun Veterans Monument, (sculpture).

J.L. Mott Iron Works, founder.

Hillhouse, W. L., fabricator.

Calhoun Veterans Monument, (sculpture).

Arch, (sculpture).

Dedicated 1927.

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Arch: fieldstone; Figures: iron; Bases: fieldstone and concrete.

Arch: approx. H. 20 ft.; Each figure: approx. 8 x 2 x 2 ft.; Each base: approx. 8 x 3 x 3 ft.

(Bottom of both sides:) THE J.L. MOTT/IRON WKS. N.Y. (Top of arch, both sides, on marble plaque:) CALHOUN (Inscribed plaques on front of self-bases of each figure) (Below Confederate solider, facing west, on marble plaque:) CONFEDERATE/MEMORIAL/BATTLE OF RESACA FOUGHT/HERE MAY 14 AND 15, 1864 (Inside arch, facing east, on marble plaque:) COMMITTEE/RMS. ERNEST NEAL, CHAIR/MRS. C.C. HARLAN, TREAS/MRS. J.B. ERWIN/J.C. GARLINGTON, MAYOR/W.L. HILLHOUSE, BLDR./1927 (Below World War I soldier, facing east, on marble plaque:) CALHOUN HONORS HER/WORLD WAR/HEROES/1917-1918 unsigned Founder's mark appears.

A large fieldstone arch with a figure of a Confederate and World War I soldier flanking it, each with their own base. The Confederate soldier faces west and stands gripping a rifle with both hands. He has a moustache and wears a wide-brimmed hat, with perhaps a bayonet on his proper left hip. The World War I soldier faces east and stands with a rifle in the crook of his proper right arm, his proper left hand on his hip. He wears a wide-brimmed, angled hat, open-collared shirt with sleeves rolled to the elbow, and boots. Each soldier is depicted as an older man. Each figure has a small, inscribed plaque on the front of its self-base, and is mounted upon a tall base with a plaque. Inside the arch, as well as at the top of two sides of the arch, there is an inscribed plaque.

History -- United States -- Civil War

History -- United States -- World War I

Figure male -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform

Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Calhoun

Administered by State of Georgia, Department of Transportation, Georgia

Located Route 41 & 225, Calhoun, Georgia

Builder is W. L. Hillhouse. IAS files contain a related excerpt from Isabell Smith Buzzett's "Confederate Monuments of Georgia," Atlanta: Atlanta Chapter No. 18, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1984, pg. 7.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia, Atlanta survey, 1993.

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