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UNION VETERAN LEGION SHERMAN MEMORIAL CURRENT

UNION VETERAN LEGION SHERMAN MEMORIAL CURRENT
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Location: 1252 HILL ROAD NORTH

City: PICKERINGTON

State: Ohio

Zip Code: 43147

Type of Memorial: Statues War or Military Related

Year Dedicated: 1918

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

Photograph By: WILLIAM FISCHER JR.

Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org

IN HONOR U.V.L. OF USA
UNION VETERAN LEGION-AN ORGANIZATION OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR. FOUNDED IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, IN 1884, ITS MEMBERSHIP WAS OPEN ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAD SERVED IN THE UNION FORCES FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS AND THOSE WHO HAD BEEN WOUNDED. BECAUSE OF ITS LIMITED MEMBERSHIP, ITS POLITICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE WAS SECONDARY TO THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, THE LARGEST UNION VETERANS GROUP.
SHERMAN’S HEAD AND LEFT HAND WERE REMOVED BY VANDALS IN 1968.
SEE ALSO-UNION VETERAN LEGION SHERMAN MEMORIAL ORIGINAL.


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