Pittsburgh Civil War Monuments

Hampton Battery Memorial, 1871.
Sculptor unknown. East Park, Cedar Avenue near Anderson Street.

"The artilleryman in stone, who once held a gun rammer, is a monument to the Pennsylvania Independent Light Artillery, Battery F, whose members served at Chancellorsville, Antietam, Gettysburg, and many other Civil War battlefields." (p. 3).

Middle: Soldiers' Monument, photo courtesy of Ed Hahn and said to be from Carnegie Library, but the original was not found in a search of their files.

Right: Soldiers' Monument as it exists today, just to the west of the Pittsburgh Aviary.

Soldiers' Monument, 1871.
West Park (relocated from Monument Hill). Sculptor P. C. Reniers, architect Louis Morganroth, of Mitchell and Grant, consulting Engineers, New York; redesigned (1931) by George Pauley and Robert Schmertz.

"The 'colossal figure of Fame' and the parts of the original spire on which it sits are all that now remain. ... The aesthetic tastes of the 1930s prompted the design change ..." (p. 23).

Parade Rest and Lookout, 1923.
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall main entrance, Fifth Avenue between Bigelow Boulevard and University Place. Sculptor Frederick Cleveland Hibbard.

"A man who had been a drummer boy in 1861 gave the drumroll that opened the April 1923 dedication ceremonies for these bronze heroic statues." (p. 204).

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