COLONEL DAVID HENDERSON WAR MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Statues of High Ranking Military Officers
Access: Private
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Submitted By: IOWACIVILWARMONUMENTS.COM
HENDERSON WAS A LIEUTENANT IN THE IOWA 12TH INFANTRY REGIMENT WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED AT FT. DONELSON AND CORINTH. THE WOUND AT CORINTH REQUIRED AMPUTATION OF HIS FOOT. LATER HE WAS APPOINTED, AT THE AGE OF 24, COLONEL OF THE IOWA 46TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, A 100 DAY REGIMENT FORMED IN 1864. THIS 7 FOOT BRONZE STATUE, USING THE SAME MOLD, IS ALSO IN CLERMONT AT THE OLD EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
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