Dubois County Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Jasper, Indiana)

Dubois County Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Jasper, Indiana)

Full-length figure of a Civil War soldier atop stone structure with bronze reliefs on each side. The soldier wears a uniform and cap. The cape of his overcoat is thrown over his proper right shoulder. He holds the barrel of a rifle with both hands; the butt of the gun rests on the ground in front of him. The sculpture stands atop a multi-tiered pedestal. A small cannon barrel protrudes through an opening on each side of the tiered pedestal. The pedestal rests on a square vaulted structure containing a room for war relics. Bronze relief panels are mounted to three sides of the structure's facade; a bronze door with relief is located on the west side of the structure. The relief panel on the east side depicts two wounded soldiers, a father and son, comforting each other. The panel on the south side depicts a capless soldier crouched behind a barricade, rifle at the ready. The relief panel on the north side depicts a woman gazing upon a recent battlefield filled with remnants of the conflict including a broken wheel, a broken sword, and a bugle. The door on the west side of the structure has a relief depicting a soldier on sentry duty. The soldier is shown from behind in proper left profile

Monumental Bronze Company

Jonah Boeckh

Site

2777

1894-01-01

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https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=47458, https://www.si.edu/object/dubois-county-soldiers-and-sailors-monument-sculpture:siris_ari_340100

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Michael Durlauf

U.S.

Dubois County Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Jasper, Indiana)

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Bas-relief

( Battle Names - Around Top of Memorial ) Antietam • Chickamauga • Gettysburg • Vicksburg ( Front Panel ) Yield not to grief the tribute of a tear, But ‘neath the fore-front of a specious sky, Smile all exultant, as they smiled at fear, who dare to do, where doing meant to die So best may comrades prove remembrance dear, So best be hallowed earth where soldier lie. Dubois County Soldiers and Sailors Monument 1861 — 1865 ( Panel - - Left Side ) Cover the thousands who sleep far away – Sleep where their friends can not find them today; They who in mountain and hillside and dell, Rest where they wearied and lie where they fell. ( Panel - - Right Side ) Soldier rest! Thy warfare o’er, Sleep the sleep, that knows no breaking Dream of battled fields no more, Days of danger, nights of waking. ( Door - - Obverse Side ) For Country and flag. Our Army and Navy.

Dubois County Commissioners

Indiana

Dubois

Union

Jasper