UNION VETERAN LEGION SHERMAN MEMORIAL CURRENT
IN HONOR U.V.L. OF USA
UNION VETERAN LEGION-AN ORGANIZATION OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR. FOUNDED IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, IN 1884, ITS MEMBERSHIP WAS OPEN ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAD SERVED IN THE UNION FORCES FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS AND THOSE WHO HAD BEEN WOUNDED. BECAUSE OF ITS LIMITED MEMBERSHIP, ITS POLITICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE WAS SECONDARY TO THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, THE LARGEST UNION VETERANS GROUP.
SHERMAN'S HEAD AND LEFT HAND WERE REMOVED BY VANDALS IN 1968.
SEE ALSO-UNION VETERAN LEGION SHERMAN MEMORIAL ORIGINAL.
UNION VETERAN LEGION-AN ORGANIZATION OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR. FOUNDED IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, IN 1884, ITS MEMBERSHIP WAS OPEN ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAD SERVED IN THE UNION FORCES FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS AND THOSE WHO HAD BEEN WOUNDED. BECAUSE OF ITS LIMITED MEMBERSHIP, ITS POLITICAL AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE WAS SECONDARY TO THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, THE LARGEST UNION VETERANS GROUP.
SHERMAN'S HEAD AND LEFT HAND WERE REMOVED BY VANDALS IN 1968.
SEE ALSO-UNION VETERAN LEGION SHERMAN MEMORIAL ORIGINAL.
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- Public
- CIVIL WAR
- Statues War or Military Related
- 1918
- 1252 HILL ROAD NORTH
- 43147
- WILLIAM FISCHER JR.
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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