Camp-Field Monument; or, Griffin A. Stedman Monument (Hartford, Connecticut)

Camp-Field Monument; or, Griffin A. Stedman Monument (Hartford, Connecticut)

Veterans of several Connecticut regiments erected this monument in 1900 on the site in Hartford, the state capital, where they had been mustered into service and encamped prior to their departure for the theater of war. Unlike many northern monuments that depict a generic Union soldier, this one features a statue of a specific individual: General Griffin A. Stedman, whom the monument inscription calls a “typical volunteer soldier of the Civil War.” Born in Hartford and educated at Trinity College, less than a kilometer from the site, Stedman had been widely mourned in the city when he was killed in 1864 during the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, where a federal fortification was christened Fort Stedman the same year.

Gorham Company (foundry) and Stephen Maslen Corporation (stone pedestal)

1900-10-04

ket4@st-andrews.ac.uk

Site

2859

1898-01-01

1900-10-04

0m x 0m x 6.4008m

Trinity College Bulletin, December 1900, pp 5-21 (available at https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/4) “Veterans at Campfield Dedicate Monument Statue of General Stedman,” Hartford Courant 5 October 1900, pp 1, 8. Suzanne Mittica, “Griffin A. Stedman, Jr.: Student, Soldier, Legend” (2003), Hartford Studies Collection: Papers by Students and Faculty, Trinity College Library (available at https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/hartford_papers/5) David Ransom and the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, “Griffin A. Stedman Monument,” Connecticut Civil War Monuments Survey, 1997; https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/finding_aides/ransom/045.htm (accessed 21 August 2024). Douglas Eliason, “Griffin A. Stedman: The Man and the Symbol (1996); Trinitiana Collection, Trinity College Library

current,41.743244, -72.682333;

Frederick Moynihan

United States of America

Camp-Field Monument; or, Griffin A. Stedman Monument (Hartford, Connecticut)

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Statue - high ranking official

The Camp-Field Monument Association

Private donations (principally veterans of the 5th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 16th Connecticut regiments) and state funds.

Bronze,Granite

(1) Front (west) face of lower stage of dado, bronze plaque 33 1/2" x 27 1/2", raised caps: GRIFFIN A. STEDMAN. TYPICAL VOLUNTEER SOLDIER OF THE CIVIL WAR, CAPTAIN MAJOR LIEUTENANT COLONEL COLONEL BRIGADIER GENERAL BORN AT HARTFORD, CONN., JANUARY 6, 1838. KILLED AT PETERSBURG, VA., AUGUST 5, 1864 (2) North: REGIMENTS ENCAMPED ON THIS FIELD 5TH CONN. VOLS, ORRIS S. BERRY, COLONEL 8TH " " EDWARD HARLAND, " 10TH " " CHARLES L. RUSSELL, " 14TH " " DWIGHT MORRIS, " 16TH " " FRANK BEACH, " 22ND " " GEORGE S. BURNHAM, " 25TH " " GEORGE E. BISSELL, " (3) East: [Seal of Connecticut] (4) South: THIS MONUMENT MARKS THE FIELD EXTENDING FROM THIS POINT SIXTY RODS EAST AND ONE-HUNDRED RODS SOUTH ON WHICH SEVEN REGIMENTS OF CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS ENCAMPED AND WERE MUSTERED INTO THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE CIVIL WAR. 1861 - 1865 ERECTED BY THE VETERAN SURVIVORS OF THE WAR. [Left side of statue base, incised caps: FRED. MOYNIHAN. SC / NY 1900]

City of Hartford Department of Public Works, Parks & Cemetery Division

$6000

Connecticut

Hartford

Union

Pequonock, Wangunk, Podunk, Tunxis, Wappinger, Nehantic, Nipmuck, and Mahican peoples

Hartford

Park