File:History of the soldiers' monument in Waterbury, Conn (1886) (14576100568).jpg

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Title: History of the soldiers' monument in Waterbury, Conn
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Anderson, Joseph, 1836- Waterbury Soldiers' Monument Committee (Waterbury, Conn.)
Subjects: Waterbury, Conn. Soldiers' monument Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: (Hartford, Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard co.) Printed for the Monument committee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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harvests, and the comfort-able cottage, with its inviting porch and generous welcome,— all abandoned and sacrificed/r^/«/rm. The figure on the north side represents a seatedveteran, resting beside a comrades grave. He isclad in the well-known overcoat and cape, and hisaccoutrements are cast off, as if fighting days wereover. His gun rests between his knees. His rightarm lies upon his knapsack, which stands on end,and his briar-wood pipe hangs loosely from his fingers.His face is full of experience and pensive thought.At his feet are the palm branch, the laurel wreath,and immortelles — emblems of victory, reconciliation,death, and fame. This may well be regarded as amemorial statue, reminding all who look upon themonument of the sacrifices which their countrymenmade in their behalf. While the returned veteran illustrates in one waythe fruits of the war, they are set forth in quiteanother way by the group on the south side of thepedestal. The central figure is seated in a chair of
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Ao. I.V _ -uir^cn, Photographers. Photo-Gravure Co. New York ON THE WEST SIDE MEANING OF THE BRONZE GROUP. 49 state, the panelled back of which is occupied by awreath of oak leaves and laurel; and within this, in amedallion, is an eagle, from whose beak depends a tab-let bearing the word Emancipation, the key, ofcourse, to the meaning of the group. The seated fig-ure, whose face is full of motherly tenderness, leans for-ward in an attitude of listening. Her clasped handsrest on a large book which stands on her knee half-open ; her right foot is upon a cannon, beside whichlies a broken shackle. The fillet which binds herhair is ornamented with a miniature shield, gravenwith stars and stripes, \yhich marks her out as repre-senting the American government. A well-dressedschool-boy — his bundle of books beside him — standsat her knee, and while she leans forward to listen tohim she looks down benignantly upon a ragged littlenegro sitting on a cotton-bale ather feet, who holds inone ha

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