Relief: bronze; Stele and base: pink and black polished granite
Type:
Sculptures-Relief
Sculptures-Stele
Sculptures-Outdoor Sculpture
Sculptures
Owner/Location:
Administered by United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Washington District of Columbia
Administered by Vicksburg National Military Park 3201 Clay Street, Box 349 Vicksburg Mississippi 39180
Located Vicksburg National Military Park Grant Avenue near New York Memorial Vicksburg Mississippi
Date:
Dedicated 1918
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Mississippi survey, 1992.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, MS7302, 1989.
Vicksburg National Military Park, 1988.
Image on file.
Theo. Alice Ruggles-Kitson/Gorham Foundry (On bronze tablet under portrait:) WILLIAM W. SANFORD/COL. 48TH ILLINOIS INFTY/COMMANDING 4TH BRIGADE/1ST DIVISION 16TH CORPS signed Founder's mark appears.
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Summary:
A relief portrait, bust-length, of Colonel William W. Sanford. He wears a uniform but no hat. He is turned slightly to the proper right and has a full beard and moustache. The relief is on a granite stele, which sits on a low rectangular base.
