Civil War Commemorative Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Civil War Commemorative Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Cemeteries -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Inscriptions -- Massachusetts -- Watertown.; Massachusetts -- Watertown -- Cemeteries.; Landscape architecture -- Watertown (Mass) -- Mt. Auburn.; Civil War monument -- Watertown (Mass).; Milmore, Martin -- Sculptor -- 1844--1883.;

In March 1865, Dr. Jacob Bigelow first proposed to the Cemetery Commission that, "a public monument in memory of the heroes who have fallen in the present war for the preservation of the Union." be done. Martin Milmore, Sculptor. Located in front of Bigelow Chapel. Front view. "American Union Preserved African Slavery Destroyed By the uprising of a Great People By the Blood of Fallen Heroes"

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