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Title: Souvenir of the unveiling, dedication and presentation of the Abraham Lincoln G. A. R. memorial monument : dedicated to the veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865, at Long Beach, California, July 3rd, 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Long Beach (Calif.). Citizens Monumental Association
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Grand Army of the Republic Monuments
Publisher: Long Beach, Calif. : Geo. W. Moyle Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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piece is from aphotograph taken just as the cannon now stands on Snodgress hill, battle-field of Chicamauga, near the location of the log cabin where GeneralGeorge H. Thomas made his headquarters. The other emblems will be readily recognized and found to be particu-larly fitting in every detail. The names of famous commanders will befound in plain lettering on the four sides of the base, and below them thenames of many of the memorable battles fought in 1861-1865. The wholestructure is emblematical of patriotism and heroism, surmounted with thestatue of the greatest American—Abraham Lincoln. The statue being a fac-simile of the splendid statue in Lincoln Park, Chicago, 111., from the ham-mer and chisel of one of the worlds most famous sculptors, Augustus St.Gaudens, born 1848, died 1907. The statue chisled here by an expert artistin the employ of Britain Brothers, contractors, Long Beach, made from thenoted Raymond granite, and the die from Academy quarry, near Fresno,California. 22
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COL. GEORGE W. WILCOXChairman Citizens Monument Association UNVEILING PROGRAM Selections by the Long Beach Municipal Band, 1:45 to 2 oclock Call to Order—Chairman Geo. W. Wilcox REMARKS BY THE CHAIRMAN Comrades of the Grand Army and Fellow Citizens: We have builded a monument. We have cut it from the solid rock ofCalifornia. Towering above the shaft or die of this monument, hewn from thenative granite of our adopted state, is the chiseled form of Lincoln, our immortalleader and Commander-in-Chief. Beneath the battlement, on the dark polished surface of the die, cut from oneof natures giant boulders, there stands out in bold relief the Grand Army Badgeand the letters G. A. R. in honor of its members living or dead, and forgettingnot any who marched to the music of the Union we have carved on the base beneathOld Glory: DEDICATED TO THE VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR. We are here met to dedicate this monument and then present it, for futurecare and preservation, to our adopted city. In doin

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