Administered by City of New Haven Department of Parks, Recreation, and Trees 720 Edgewood Avenue New Haven Connecticut 06515
Located Opposite Christ Church Episcopal, 318 Elm Street New Haven Connecticut 06515
Date:
Dedicated June 16, 1905
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993.
Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), June 16, 1905.
New Haven Register (New Haven, CT), June 3, 1928.
New Haven Register (New Haven, CT), Aug. 19, 1928.
Image on file.
(Southeast side of pedestal:) ERECTED BY/THE JOINT CONTRIBUTIONS OF/THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT/AND/THE VETERANS ASSOCIATIONS/OF THE/1ST CONN. LIGHT BATTERY AND/6TH, 7TH AND 10TH CONN. VOLS./AS A SACRED AND PERPETUAL/MEMORIAL TO THE MEN WHO SUFFERED/AND DIED THAT THE REPUBLIC/MIGHT LIVE: 1861-1865/DEDICATED JUNE 16, 1905 (Bronze plaque below, on face of octagonal base, raised caps:) 10TH CONN. VOLUNTEERS/IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE SERVICES/AND SACRIFICES OF OUR HEROIC DEAD,/WHO OFFERED THEIR LIVES ON THE ALTAR/OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT AND HUMAN/LIBERTY, THIS TABLET IS LOVINGLEY/INSCRIBED BY THEIR SURVIVING COMRADES/OF THE TENTH CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS./TOTAL NUMBER ENROLLED 1879/TOTAL CASUALTIES 1011/NUMBER OF ENGAGEMENTS 51/TERM OF SERVICE, SEPTEMBER 30, 1861, TO SEPTEMBER 2, 1865/SAFE AND HAPPY THE REPUBLIC WHOSE/SONS GLADLY DIE IN HER DEFENSE
(Bronze plaque, northeast side of cylinder, raised caps:) SEVENTH CONN. VOLS./HAWLEY'S BRIGADE,/TERRY'S DIVISION, TENTH CORPS./TOOK PART IF CAPTURE OF FT. PULASKI,/CAPTURE OF FT. WAGNER,/DEMOLITION OF FT. SUMPTER,/CAPTURE OF FT. FISHER/AND THIRTEEN OTHER ENGAGEMENTS./DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH AN ARMY OF THE JAMES. (Bronze plaque, northwest side of base:) 6TH CONN. VOLUNTEERS/ORGANIZED SEPT. 1861. MUSTERED OUT AUG. 21st, 1865/TOTAL NUMBER OF MEN WHO SERVED IN THE REGT. 1608/CASUALTIES 877/ENGAGEMENTS/PORT ROYAL, S.C., MORRIS ISLAND, S.C., SIEGE OF PETERSBURG/PORT PULASKI, GA., FORT WAGNER, S.C., DEEP BOTTOM, VT./JAMES ISLAND, S.C., CHESTER STATION, VA., DEEP RUN, VA./POCOTALIGO, S.C., DREWERYS BLUFF, VA., CHAPINS FARMS, VA./FORT FISHER, N.C. WILMINGTON, N.C./AND MORE THAN TWENTY OTHER MINOR ENGAGEMENTS/AND AFFAIRS./SERVICE/ARMY CORPS 19TH AND 24TH/DEPARTMENTS/DEPT. OF THE SOUTH. DEPT OF NORTH CAROLINA/ARMY OF THE JAMES ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
(Bronze plaque, southwest side of cylinder, raised caps:) FIRST CONNECTICUT LIGHT BATTERY/KNOWN AS ROCKWELL'S BATTERY/MUSTERED IN OCTOBER 26TH, 1861/MUSTERED OUT JUNE 11TH, 1865/PARTICIPATED IN THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON/AND OTHER BATTLES IN SOUTH CAROLINA/FT. FINNEGAN, FLA. JAN. 1862 TO MAY 1864/AND ENGAGEMENTS OF RICHMOND AND/PETERSBURG CAMPAIGNS/FROM MAY 1864 TO LEE'S SURRENDER IN 1865/THE TENTH AND TWENTY FIFTH ARMY CORPS
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Summary:
The monument consists of an octagonal base, a cylindrical pedestal flanked by two figures, and a cylindrical shaft with crowning bronze sphere and eagle. The northeast soldier, stands, holding a musket in his proper right hand. He is in the act of taking a cartridge from his cartridge box to insert it into the muzzle of his musket. The southwest artilleryman stands with his proper right foot forward and he holds up an artillery stick in his proper left hand. His proper right hand is held over his brow as a visor.
