Returned Soldier (Wethersfield, Connecticut)
Union
Benjamin Fitch commissioned Larkin Meade Jr. to replicate a classical sculpture seen by Fitch in Italy to honour Connecticut Veterans and their families. The statue features an orphan sitting on the knee of a Union soldier describing her father's death in battle, a fitting narrative as the statue stood on the grounds of Fitch's Home for Soldiers and Orphans in Darien, Connecticut. Following the home's closure in 1940, the Returned Soldier was relocated to the state's first cemetery for veterans, Spring Grove Cemetery. After the monument's restoration in 1985, it was again relocated to the Veterans Home and Hospital in Rocky Hill, where it stands today. A replica of the monument can also be found in the Chrysler Museum of Art in Virginia.
Monument type:
Statue - other
Artist:
Larkin G. Meade Jr.
Dedication Date:
Address:
Wethersfield
Hartfort
Connecticut
United States
Inscription:
On top of granite base:
Rededication 11 - 13 -99/
Conklin-Sellew Aux./
Sons, Union Veterans, Civil War
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Conception Date:
1867-01-01
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Size:
0m x 0m x 3.2766000000000006m
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Cost / Value:
Erected by:
Benjamin Fitch
Funded by:
Benjamin Fitch
Run by:
Connecticut Veterans Home and Hospital
Indigenous Land
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