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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 -- Pennsylvania -- Phillipsburg
     
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    		• Relief
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Civil War Memorial, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Unknown, sculptor.
    Title: 
    Civil War Memorial, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1898. Dedicated 1898. Rededicated 1910.
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: granite; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 15 x 2 x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 4 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in. x 4 ft. 6 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On front of base, incised letters:) THE TREES IN THIS PARK/HAVE BEEN GIVEN AS MEMORIALS/AND PLANTED IN HONOR OF THE/BI-CENTENNIAL OF THE BIRTH OF/1732-GEORGE WASHINGTON-1932 (On back of base, raised letters:) IN MEMORY/OF/DEFENDERS/OF/THE NATION (On left side of base, raised letters:) BOROUGH/ORGANIZED/1864/FIRST/TELEPHONE/1878/FIRST/ELECTRIC/LIGHT/1881 (On right side of base, incised letters:) ERECTED 1898/RE=ERECTED/1910/BY/THE CITIZENS/OF/PHILIPSBURG (sic) unsigned
    Description: 
    A Civil War soldier stands with his weight on his proper right leg and his proper left leg forward. He is holding his gun in front of himself, butt end resting on the ground, gripping the barrel with his proper left hand above proper right hand. The soldier has a moustache, and is dressed in a small cap and a knee-length coat that opens to expose his proper left leg. The sculpture is mounted on a tall base adorned with a relief depicting a an eagle perched on two crossed canons above a vertical U. S. flag with a star below it.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Civil War
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Phillipsburg
    Relief
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Phillipsburg Borough, 4 North Center Street, P. O. Box 631, Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania 16866
    Located Beaver Street, Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania
    Remarks: 
    The memorial was installed in 1898 and reinstalled in 1910 by the citizens of Phillipsburg, in memory of those who fought in the Civil War.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.
    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 PA000695
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