Colonel Richard Owen Bust, or “A bond between North and South” (Indianapolis, Indiana)
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Located in the Indiana Statehouse, this bronze bust of Union Colonel Richard Owen was erected by Confederate veteran and former camp inmate, S. A. Cunningham in 1913. The statue, funded entirely by readers of the Confederate Veteran magazine, commemorates the humanity Colonel Owen showed to his Confederate inmates as commissioner of Camp Morton prison in Indiana. Southern “sculpturess” Belle Kinney was commissioned to complete the monument. Designed in the spirit of reconciliation, Kinney was “anxious that [the bust] be handsome and unusually attractive, as it will be placed in a Northern city and must speak for [the South].” In 1913, she informed the press that “it was my aim to portray such a man as he might look while pondering over the meaning of the great struggle … his sympathetic heart touched by the suffering it caused, yet realizing its necessity.” Owen is posed with his arms folded across his chest, gazing off to the right and his Union military uniform is draped across his shoulders like a cape. The bust sits on a three-part limestone base adorned with a series of carved leaves and inscribed with bronze letters commemorating Owen’s “Courtesy and Kindness.”
In 1933, two bronze replicas of the bust were cast and given to Indiana University in Bloomington and Purdue University in West Lafayette where both busts still stand in the schools’ Memorial Union buildings.
Monument type:
Bust
Artist:
Belle Kinney Scholz
Dedication Date:
1913-06-09
Address:
Indianapolis
Marion County
Indiana
United States of America
Inscription:
Beneath the bust: “Colonel Richard Owen / Commandant / Camp Morton Prison 1862 / Tribute by Confederate Prisoners / of War and Their Friends / for his Courtesy and Kindness.”
Beneath this there are thirteen bronze stars.
In the center left side of the base is the artist’s inscription, “Belle Kinney, Sc”.
On the left side of the bronze bust is the artist’s inscription, “Belle Kinney/NY”.
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Conception Date:
1911-01-01
Opening Date:
1913-06-09
Material:
Bronze,Limestone
Size:
1.778m x 1.016m x 0.5334m
Creator:
Sumner Archibald Cunnigham
Cost / Value:
$1,127 was raised from the readers of the Confederate Veteran. “Independent of the sculptor’s work, the cost will exceed $900.” “The memorial was valued at $3,000, but only the actual working expense, amounting to some $1,500, was charged.”
Erected by:
Sumner Archibald Cunnigham
Funded by:
Donations from the readers of the Confederate Veteran magazine and other individual confederate donors. List of people who contributed funds to the monuments creation: A Friend, Nashville, Tennessee, $1.00; A Friend, West Virginia, $5.00; A Southern Woman $1.00; Abernathy, Ed, Pulaski, Tennessee, $0.50; Addison Harvey Chapter, U. D. C, Canton, Mississippi, $5.00; Alderson, J. C, Charleston, West Virginia, $1.00; Alexander, S. J., Macon, Tennessee, $1.00; Allen, P. E., Grand Cane, Louisiana, $5.00; Anderson, John, Enfield, North Carolina, $4.00; Anderson, S. B., Mineola, Texas, $1.00; Anderson, W. A., Holly Springs, Mississippi, $1.00; Armstrong, J. E., Waterloo, Virginia, $1.00; Armstrong, Mrs. Nora Owen, Memphis, Tennessee, $25.00; Arnold, J. M., Covington, Kentucky, $1.00; Arrowsmith, F., Pulaski, Tennessee, $1.00; Asbury, Col. A. E., Higginsville, Missouri, $20.00; Bachman, N. D., Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee, $2.00; Bailey, Prof. J. E., Nashville, Tennessee $1.00; Barron, S. 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Run by:
State of Indiana
Indigenous Land
Kiikaapoi
Organization/Curator:
Indiana State Museum
Data Sources:
Resolution of the Indiana House of Representatives, quoted in ‘Memorials: Col. Richard Owen, the good samaritan of Camp Morton; Sam Davis, The boy hero of Tennessee’, Confederate Veteran (Nashville, 1913), p. 3, https://archive.org/details/memorialscolrich00nash/page/n5/mode/2up [accessed 02/03/23].
Smith, Elise L., "Belle Kinney and the Confederate Women's Monument," The Southern Quarterly 32 (1994) 2-27.
‘STARS AND BARS IN INDIANA: Confederate ex-Prisoners Honor Memory of Their Union Commander’, New York Times, (10 June, 1913), https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/06/10/100628335.html?pageNumber=2 [accessed 02/03/23].
‘Sculptress Shows Bust of Col. Owen’, New York Times, (24 January, 1913), https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/01/24/100250178.html?pageNumber=11.
Statehouse Tour Office, ‘Richard Owen’, Indiana Department of Administration, https://www.in.gov/idoa/statehouse/notable-hoosiers-in-sculpture/richard-owen/#:~:text=Bust%20History&text=This%20bust%20was%20placed%20in [accessed 02/03/23 ]
‘The Richard Owen Story’, The Nashville Banner, repr. in Confederate Veteran, 19: 1 (January 1913), p. 109, https://archive.org/details/confederateveter21conf/page/108/mode/2up?q=richard+owen [accessed 02/03/23].
Read below for one of our contributor’s reflections on this monument