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    		• Occupation -- Military
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Ft. Oglethorpe
     
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    Fourth Michigan Cavalry Regiment Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Gorham Manufacturing Company, founder.
    Smith Granite Company, contractor.
    Title: 
    Fourth Michigan Cavalry Regiment Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1895 or 1896. Installed 1896.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image
    Medium: 
    Marker: granite: Relief plaque; bronze; Seal: bronze; Base: granite.
    Dimensions: 
    Marker: approx. 6 x 7 x 2 ft.; Base: approx. 18 in. x 9 ft. x 4 ft. 6 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Bottom right corner of relief plaque on front of marker:) GORHAM MFG. CO. FOUNDERS (Top front of marker:) MICHIGAN/TO HER/FOURTH REGIMENT OF CAVALRY,/COLONEL ROBERT H.G. MINTY/MAJOR HORACE GRAY, COMMANDING,/MINTY'S BRIGADE, CROOK'S DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS (Polished panel on back of marker: description of the battle) unsigned Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    A rectangular bronze relief plaque depicting a Civil War battle scene in a wooded area along a river bank is installed on a granite commemorative marker. The relief depicts soldiers on foot and on horseback. The State of Michigan seal is on the back of the marker. The marker has a slightly curved top, with rough-cut upper sections and sides, and is mounted on a rectangular, rough-cut base.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Civil War
    Figure group
    Occupation -- Military -- Soldier
    Dress -- Uniform -- Military Uniform
    State of Being -- Evil -- War
    Equestrian
    Architecture -- Military -- Battlefield
    Emblem -- Seal
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Georgia -- Ft. Oglethorpe
    Relief
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, District of Columbia
    Administered by Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, P. O. Box 2128, Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia 30742
    Located Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Reed's Bridge Road & Jay's Mill Road, Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia
    Remarks: 
    The monument commemorates the involvement of the Michigan Fourth Regiment of Cavalry, Colonel Robert H. G. Minty, Major Horace Gray commanding, Minty's Brigade, Crook's Division, Cavalry Corps at the Battle of Chickamauga during the Civil War. It was placed by the State of Michigan. IAS files contain excerpt from Jack Kerr's "Monuments and Markers of the 29 States Engaged at Chickamauga and Chattanooga," Collegedale, TN: The College Press, n.d.; and a copy of Georgia Historic Resources 1988 form, Historic Preservation Section, Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The monument is on the National Park Service List of Structures, No. 03017.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Georgia survey, 1994.
    National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, TN0036, 1989.
    Monumental News, May 1895, pg. 323.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Kerr, Jack, "Monuments and Markers of the 29 States Engaged at Chickamauga and Chattanooga," Collegedale, TN: The College Press, n.d.
    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 GA000681
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