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Title
Returned Soldier (Wethersfield, Connecticut)
Description
Benjamin Fitch commissioned Larkin Meade Jr. to replicate a classical sculpture seen by Fitch in Italy to honour Connecticut Veterans and their families. The statue features an orphan sitting on the knee of a Union soldier describing her father's death in battle, a fitting narrative as the statue stood on the grounds of Fitch's Home for Soldiers and Orphans in Darien, Connecticut. Following the home's closure in 1940, the Returned Soldier was relocated to the state's first cemetery for veterans, Spring Grove Cemetery. After the monument's restoration in 1985, it was again relocated to the Veterans Home and Hospital in Rocky Hill, where it stands today. A replica of the monument can also be found in the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia.
Source
american,unionmonument
Contributor
ka88@st-andrews.ac.uk
Type
Site
Identifier
2062
Date Created
1867-01-01
Extent
0m x 0m x 3.2766000000000006m
Spatial Coverage
current,41.653782,-72.65156;
Rights Holder
Larkin G. Meade Jr.
Europeana
Country
United States
Europeana Data Provider
Returned Soldier
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Returned_Soldier_
Monument Type
Statue - other
Erected by
Benjamin Fitch
Funded by
Benjamin Fitch
Run by
Connecticut Veterans Home and Hospital
Inscription
On top of granite base:
Rededication 11 - 13 -99/
Conklin-Sellew Aux./
Sons, Union Veterans, Civil War
State
Connecticut
County
Hartfort
Affiliation
Union
City
Wethersfield