STATE OF VERMONT GETTYSBURG WAR MEMORIAL
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Location: GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK-HANCOCK AVENUE
City: GETTYSBURG
State: Pennsylvania
Zip Code: 17325
Type of Memorial: Statues of High Ranking Military Officers
Year Dedicated: 1899
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: CRAIG SWAIN
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
VERMONT
IN HONOR OF HER SONS WHO FOUGHT ON THIS FIELD
THE STATUE ATOP OF THE MEMORIAL IS THAT OF BRIGADIER GENERAL GEORGE STANNARD, COMMANDER OF THE SECOND VERMONT BRIGADE AT GETTYSBURG. THE STATUE SHOWS GENERAL STANNARD AS HE APPEARED AFTER HE LOST HIS RIGHT ARM IN FIGHTING AROUND PETERSBURG LATER IN THE WAR. STANNARD IS HOLDING HIS SWORD IN HIS LEFT HAND, AND HIS RIGHT SLEEVE IS PINNED UP. IT WAS DEBATED WHETHER TO SHOW STANNARD AS HE WAS DURING THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG BEFORE HE LOST HIS ARM, BUT IT WAS THOUGHT FITTING TO DISPLAY THE SACRIFICE MADE BY SO MANY SOLDIERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
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