Administered by New Market Battlefield Historical Park Museum Programs Lexington Virginia 24450
Located New Market Battlefield Historical Park U.S. 11 New Market Virginia
Date:
Dedicated Oct. 25, 1905
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Virginia survey, 1995.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, VA5028, 1989.
Monumental News, Dec. 1905, pg. 882.
Image on file.
(On front of pedestal:) ERECTED/TO THE MEMORY/OF THE HEROIC DEAD/OF THE 54TH REGT./PA. VET. VOL. INFTY./WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/IN DEFENCE (sic) OF THEIR/COUNTRY (On first step of base:) 1861-1865 (On plaque at bottom step of base:) AT CEREMONIES CONDUCTED 16 SEPTEMBER 1984,/TITLE TO THIS MONUMENT WAS TRANSFERRED FROM/THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA TO THE NEW/MARKET BATTLEFIELD PARK. THE MONUMENT WAS/ORIGINALLY DEDICATED ON 25 OCTOBER 1905 TO THE/MEN OF THE 54th PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY. IT NOW/SERVES AS A MEMORIAL TO ALL WHO FOUGHT AT THE/BATTLE OF NEW MARKET ON 15 MAY 1864. unsigned
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Summary:
Full-length figure of a Union soldier standing at parade rest. He wears a uniform, an overcoat and a cap. The cape of the overcoat is thrown over his proper right shoulder. He holds the barrel of a gun with both hands; the butt of the gun rests on the ground. The granite figure stands atop an elaborate pedestal. On the four sides of the upper step of the pedestal base are bas-relief carvings: a knapsack and crossed guns, crossed cannon and the coat of arms of the state of Pennsylvania. The dark granite pedestal rests on a three-stepped granite base.
