Hampton Battery Memorial, (sculpture).

Hampton Battery Memorial, (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

Patterson, Canfield & Company, fabricator.

Hampton Battery Memorial, (sculpture).

Pennsylvania Independent Light Artillery, Battery F Monument, (sculpture).

Installed May 29, 1871.

Figure: Westerly granite; Base: granite; Cannon: brass.

Sculpture: approx. 7 ft. x 8 ft. 2 in. x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 9 x 5 x 10 ft.

(Around upper around rim of figure's base:) HAMPTON GEARY TODD MILLER (Front of figure's base:) HAMPTON BATTERY (Rear of figure's base:) ORGANIZED/OCTOBER 8, 1861/MUSTERED OUT OF/UNITED STATES SERVICE/JUNE 24, 1865 (Inscribed below rim on one face of pedestal are the names of those who died in battle; the opposite face has a list of the 23 battles in which the battery was engaged.) (Left side of cannon base:) THE INSCRIPTION ON THE /GUN SEPAL ALVAREZ 1809/STANDS FOR THE MAN IN WHOSE HONOR/THE CANNON WAS NAMED/THIS WAS GENERAL MARIANO ALVAREZ DE CASTRO A SPANISH OFFICER BORN AT GRENADA/AND DISTINGUISHED FOR HIS RESOLUTE DEFENCE OF GEROMA AGAINST THE FRENCH IN 1809. HE DIED/IN PRISON/IN THE SAME YEAR. THE MONOGRAM ON THE (...illegible) OF THE GUN RESTS ON THE SPANISH COAT/OF ARMS AND STANDS FOR ISABELLA II THE REIGNING SOVEREIGN AT THE TIME THE GUN WAS CAST. AUG 7TH 1845 AND THE PLACE SEVILLE. (Right side of cannon base:) THIS CANNON/PRESENTED/BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO ALLEGHENY. JUNE 29TH 1899/CAPTURED FROM THE SPANISH AT SANTIAGO CUBA BY THE AMERICANS/UNDER COMMAND OF GEN. WM C. SHAFTER JULY 7, 1898. unsigned

Granite soldier standing at attention atop a granite base. At the foot of the monument is a brass cannon captured at Santiago, Cuba in 1898.

Figure male -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- Soldier

Homage -- Alvares de Castro, Mariano

History -- United States -- Civil War

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh

Administered by City of Pittsburgh, Citiparks, Department of Public Works, 611 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222

Located East Park, Cedar Avenue between James Street & Cedar Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hampton's Battery was named after its first captain, Robert B. Hampton. The battery was made up of eighty local men when it was mustered to service on October 8, 1961, but only twenty-eight survived the battles which included Gettysburg. All of the unit's officers where killed and their names appear along the rim of the base. The Park Commission of Old Allegheny City provided the foundation for the monument and donated five hundred dollars to the Pennsylvania Independent Light Artillery, Battery F to whom the monument is a memorial. IAS files contain a transcription of the battlefield names which appear on the figure's base. In 1899, the Spanish cannon was added at foot of monument. IAS files contain related information from "Story of Old Allegheny City," Pittsburgh: Allegheny Centennial Committee, 1941, pg. 181-182.

Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, Pg. 3-4.

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, PA0137, 1989.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania survey, 1995.

Evert, Marilyn, "Discovering Pittsburgh's Sculpture," Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, pg. 35.

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