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Title
The Second Maine Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Memorial (Carmel, Maine)
Description
The memorial to the Second Maine Regiment of Volunteer Infantry is located at Mount Hope Cemetery just outside of Bangor. The fourteen-foot-high bronze sculpture, mounted on white granite, depicts a faceless angel carrying a wounded soldier and is accompanied by a small stone tablet at its base and a curved stone wall behind. The monument was erected at the bequest of civic-benefactor Colonel Luther H. Pierce, a native of Bangor and lumber baron, who served in the Union Army and the Second Maine Regiment between 1861 and 1868. Pierce also requested the erection of new gate posts and a fence at Mount Hope in remembrance of his comrades. However, these requests were only completed by the 1960s, the monument was designed and created by O. V. Shaffer, a sculptor from Wisconsin, and erected by the Mount Hope Cemetery and Crematory Corporation in 1962. The monument was dedicated in the same year.
Creator
O. V. Shaffer
Source
american
Date
1963-01-01
Contributor
Conall Treen
Language
English
Type
Site
Identifier
68
Date Issued
1962-01-01
Extent
" x 108" x 168"
Spatial Coverage
current,44.819862,-68.72746;
Access Rights
Free Access, public space
Rights Holder
O. V. Shaffer
Europeana
Country
United States
Europeana Data Provider
The Second Maine Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Memorial
Object
https://mthopebgr.com/
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/The_Second_Maine_Regiment_of_Volunteer_Infantry_Memorial
Opening hours
7.30 am - 7.30pm
Monument Type
Cast - plaster, bronze, etc
Erected by
O. V. Shaffer & Mount Hope Cemetery and Crematory Corporation
Funded by
Col. Luther H. Pierce (1837 - 1915)
Run by
Mount Hope Cemetery and Crematory Corporation
Material
Bronze, Granite
Inscription
Main Inscription: NOT PAINLESSLY DOTH GOD RECAST / AND MOULD ANEW THE NATION / SECOND MAINE REGIMENT / OF VOLUNTEERS/ BATTLE RECORD - JULY 1861 - MAY 1863 / BULL RUN /YORKTOWN /HANOVER COURT HOUSE / GAINES' MILL / MALVERN HILL / MANASSAS 2ND BULL RUN / ANTIETAM / SHEPHERDSTOWN FORD / FREDERICKSBURG / CHANCELLORSVILLE
Tablet inscription: IN MEMORY OF THE / SECOND MAINE REGIMENT / OF VOLUNTEERS / GIFT OF / LUTHER H. PIERCE / A MEMBER OF THAT REGIMENT
Organisation
Mount Hope Cemetery and Crematory Corporation
State
Maine
Affiliation
Union
City
Carmel