{"id":2389,"date":"2010-06-24T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2010-07-08T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T15:25:27","slug":"the-soldiers-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/06\/24\/the-soldiers-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soldiers Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/monumentcrop.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2388\" style=\"margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/monumentcrop-125x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/monumentcrop-125x300.jpg 125w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/06\/monumentcrop.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Soldiers Monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was created in a post war effort to honor the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/17850\" target=\"_blank\">Cumberland County<\/a>\u00a0soldiers who died as a result of the Civil War.\u00a0 The efforts to build the monument were initiated by the Soldiers Monument Association in early\u00a0January 1867, which included General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6726\" target=\"_blank\">Lemuel Todd<\/a>\u00a0as Chair, General <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/5873\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Miller Henderson<\/a>\u00a0as President, and Colonel Erkuries Beatty as Corresponding Secretary.\u00a0 The minutes of the Soldiers Monument Association are available for reference at the Cumberland County Historical Society in <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24507\" target=\"_blank\">Carlisle<\/a>, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Fundraising continued into early 1871 until the Monument Association obtained the five thousand dollars needed to erect the monument.\u00a0 The extra money financed the dedication ceremonies as well as the fence that enclosed the monument.\u00a0 A Carlisle mechanic, Richard Owens, was responsible for contracting and designing the monument, which contained a \u201cRoll of Honor\u201d that provided the names of the three hundred and forty-four Cumberland County officers and soldiers that died\u00a0in combat or during their term of service in the army during\u00a0the Civil War.\u00a0 The official unveiling of the thirty foot tall Soldiers Monument took place on the Public Square near the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/17797\" target=\"_blank\">Carlisle Courthouse<\/a>\u00a0 on August 19, 1871 with <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/6726\" target=\"_blank\">Lemuel Todd<\/a>\u00a0as Chief Marshall of the ceremonies and Major General Heintzelman as the presenter of the unveiled monument.\u00a0 Available on Google Books, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=oFoVAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA42&amp;dq=Carlisle+Soldiers+Monument&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=DmEjTLmLJ4H-8AbjhdSUBQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=8&amp;ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&amp;q=Carlisle%20Soldiers%20Monument&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">Carlisle, Old and New<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 gives a brief description of the monument as well as some of the other historical features in Carlisle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soldiers Monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was created in a post war effort to honor the Cumberland County\u00a0soldiers who died as a result of the Civil War.\u00a0 The efforts to build the monument were initiated by the Soldiers Monument Association in early\u00a0January 1867, which included General Lemuel Todd\u00a0as Chair, General Robert Miller Henderson\u00a0as President, and 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