Soldiers and Sailors, 1877
Boston Common / Lafayette Mall On Flagstaff Hill Martin Milmore, Sculptor
Bronze / Granite
Soaring and traditionally monumental for a war memorial, Martin Milmore’s monument marks the center of historic Boston Common.
Martin Milmore’s success with the Roxbury monument led to his doing the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument atop Flagstaff Hill on Boston Common, begun in 1871 and completed in 1877. Four statues representing Peace, the Sailor, The Muse of History, and the Soldier, stand at the base of a tall column surmounted by a figure of Liberty. Between the projections on which the statues stand are four bronze reliefs depicting the departure of forces for the war, the Battle of Fort Sumter, the work of the Boston Sanitary Commission, and the return from the war. At the foot of the column stand allegorical figures in high relief representing the
sections of the country, the North, South, East, and West. The
architectural sense of the design is admirable. The presence of
this collective monument did not, however, spare Boston a num-
ber of individual memorials of the Civil War.
"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased at the following locations: Faneuil Hall Book Store, Old North Church Gift Store, Bestsellers Bookstore Cafe, USS Constitution Museum Gift Sore, Museum Of Science Gift Store, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Book Stores.
Boston Common / Lafayette Mall On Flagstaff Hill Martin Milmore, Sculptor
Bronze / Granite
Soaring and traditionally monumental for a war memorial, Martin Milmore’s monument marks the center of historic Boston Common.
Martin Milmore’s success with the Roxbury monument led to his doing the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument atop Flagstaff Hill on Boston Common, begun in 1871 and completed in 1877. Four statues representing Peace, the Sailor, The Muse of History, and the Soldier, stand at the base of a tall column surmounted by a figure of Liberty. Between the projections on which the statues stand are four bronze reliefs depicting the departure of forces for the war, the Battle of Fort Sumter, the work of the Boston Sanitary Commission, and the return from the war. At the foot of the column stand allegorical figures in high relief representing the
sections of the country, the North, South, East, and West. The
architectural sense of the design is admirable. The presence of
this collective monument did not, however, spare Boston a num-
ber of individual memorials of the Civil War.
"Boston Bronze and Stone Speak To Us" can be purchased at the following locations: Faneuil Hall Book Store, Old North Church Gift Store, Bestsellers Bookstore Cafe, USS Constitution Museum Gift Sore, Museum Of Science Gift Store, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble Book Stores.
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