Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — IOWA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IOWA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT.

Impoaln* Granite Shaft to Bo Crested In Dm Moinee at a Com of •160.000. Governor Jackson, D. N. Richardson and Mrs. Cora C. Weed visited Chicago recently to inspect the models for lowa’s monument to her soldiers and sailors. The models were pronounced satisfactory tn every respect, and the work will now be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. The monument is to be 133 feet high. It is an imposing gray granite shaft, surrounded by heroic bronze figures. At the base of the monument are four figures, each eight feet high, representing soldiers of the navy, infantry, artillery and cavalry. The naval figure represents a sailor swinging back a flag, which sways behind his athletic frame. The Infantryman is a young soldier, apparently just home from the war, and crowred with a laupel wreath. The cavalryman bears an upraised sword, entwined with flowers. The artilleryman, with cap doffed, holds a swab aloft On one side of the base a statue of lowa appears. The figure represents a young mother, with hands clasped to her breast. The coat of arms of the State and other emblems are appropriately arranged about the figure. The figure History, unrolling the blank scroll, appears on

the opposite side of the monument. Above these groups and surrounding the base of the shaft proper are four equestrian figures, Generals Dodge, Crocker, Curtis and Corse. Under the gables of the base are figures of Generals Belknap, Hatch and Winslow, the fourth space being reserved for the coat of arms of the State. There are two bas-reliefs on the base of the monument, one portraying the battle of Fort Donelson and the other the battle of Shiloh. About this base are arranged thirtytwo portrait medallions of lowa officers. These have not yet been selected. The granite shaft is ten feet in diameter. At the base it is sixty feet. Above all a heroic figure of Peace, twenty-two reet high is to be raised. This figure rests on a capital twelve feet high and thirteen feet wide.

SOLDIERS MONUMENT FOR IOWA.