Boston illustrated; . feet square,and rests on a mass ofsubterranean masonrysixteen feet deep. Fourprojecting- pedestals sus-tain four bronze statues,each eight feet high,representing Peace, afemale figure bearing anolive-branch and lookingto the South; the Sailor,a picturesque marinercarrying a drawn cut-lass, and looking sea-ward; History, a grace-ful female figure, inGreek costume, holdinga taV)let and stylus, andlooking- upward; and theSoldier, perhaps the beststatue on the monument,representing a Federalinfantryman standing atease, and bearing theface of a citizen-soldierrather than that
Boston illustrated; . feet square,and rests on a mass ofsubterranean masonrysixteen feet deep. Fourprojecting- pedestals sus-tain four bronze statues,each eight feet high,representing Peace, afemale figure bearing anolive-branch and lookingto the South; the Sailor,a picturesque marinercarrying a drawn cut-lass, and looking sea-ward; History, a grace-ful female figure, inGreek costume, holdinga taV)let and stylus, andlooking- upward; and theSoldier, perhaps the beststatue on the monument,representing a Federalinfantryman standing atease, and bearing theface of a citizen-soldierrather than that of a pro-fessional warrior. Be-tween these pedestalsare four large bronze reliefs. In the front is The Departure for the War,with a regiment marching by the State-House steps, the mounted officers, fromleft to right, being Colonels Lowell and Shaw, both of whom were Cass, General B. F. Butler, and Quartermaster-Gen. Reed. On thesteps are the Revs. Turner Sargent, A. H. Vinton, Phillips Brooks and Arch-. Army and Navy Monument,Boston Common. 30 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. bishop Williams; Governor Andrew, shorter than the others ; Wendell Phil-lips, Mr. Whitmore, the poet Longfellow, and others. The second bas-reliefshows the work of the Sanitary Commission, the left-hand gronp being on dutyin the field, with the Rev. E. E. Hale at its head; and in the other group theseven gentlemen are E. R. Mudge, A. H. Rice, James Russell Lowell, Gannett, George Ticknor, W. W. Clapp, and Marshall P. Wilder (from left
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