The Loyal Legion was formed by in response to rumours from Washington of a conspiracy to destroy the Federal government by assassination of its leaders, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The original membership was composed of members of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States, who had served during the American Civil War as commissioned officers in Federal service, or who had served and thereafter been commissioned, and who thereby “had aided in maintaining the honour, integrity, and supremacy of the national movement” during the Civil War. Please report objectionable advertising to the Editor.The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), or simply the Loyal Legion is a United States patriotic order, organised 15 April 1865, by three veteran officers of the Army. Dedication plaque and five name tablets inside of the Memorialģ. Wikipedia entry for sculptor George Edwin Bissell (Submitted on August 10, 2010, by Adam Brown of Edinburgh, Scotland.)ġ. (Submitted on April 22, 2010, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.)Ģ. In newspaper accounts of the dedication and in interviews with dignitaries at the time, it was noted that the monument was built to stand for ages and called "one of the handsomest monuments in the state."ġ. Also at the dedication, attended by an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people, were many surviving Civil War soldiers. Bulkeley and other state and national figures attended. At the dedication ceremony, Governor Morgan G. The Memorial was completed in 1890 and officially dedicated Thursday, September 11, 1890. The third floor allows visitors to examine the buildings interior construction. These plaques contain the names of more than 300 men who served in the Civil War. On the second floor there are five tablets attached to the walls. On the first floor is a marble fireplace and nearby a wall-size granite dedication plaque. A wooden internal stairway leads to each floor and to the top of the tower.
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At each floor, windows provide an overlook of the area. Inside the Memorial there are three floors each with a room 12 feet square.
Construction of the Monument on the top of Camp Hill in 1888-1890 required unique engineering and physical labor. Some of the individual stones are as large as 56" long and 15" high and at the base 26" deep. The granite is an uncommon color that appears at times to be pinkish cast and at others times greenish gray. Horn is said to have been the first man to enlist in the Civil War from Winchester and received the Congressional Medal of Honor. Horne served as a model for the bronze statue. It is believed that local resident and Civil War veteran Colonel Samuel B. Bissell, was cast by the Henry Bonnard Bronze Co. The bronze cast soldier stands on a tourelle (a tower jumping out of a wall) at one corner of the structure. The Monument is 20 feet square at the base and 15 feet square at the top and stands nearly 44 feet high from the ground to the top of the battlements and rises another 20 feet to the top of the soldier's color staff. The Winchester Soldiers' Monument, built with granite rock supplied from a quarry near the town's Highland Lake, is fashioned in the style of an old world feudal tower with a watch tower projecting above the battlements of the structure on which stands a bronze cast figure of a Civil War Soldier. The Winsted Soldiers Memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1984 Touch for a list and map of all markers in Winsted. 0.7 miles away) a different marker also named Winchester Soldiers Memorial (approx. 0.6 miles away) Winsted Vietnam Monument (approx. 0.6 miles away) Winchester Revolutionary War Memorial (approx. 0.3 miles away) Winsted Old Burying Ground (approx. 0.3 miles away) Winchester VFW Monument (approx. 0.3 miles away) World War II Living Memorial (approx. 0.3 miles away) Winsted Korean Conflict - Persian Gulf Monument (approx. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker.
Marker is in this post office area: Winsted CT 06098, United States of America. Marker is on Crown Street, 0.1 miles south of Munro Place, on the left when traveling south. Marker is in Winsted, Connecticut, in Litchfield County. This historical marker and memorial is listed in this topic list: War, US Civil.
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