Skip to main content

COL. DAVID HENDERSON WAR MEMORIAL

COL. DAVID HENDERSON WAR MEMORIAL
COL. DAVID HENDERSON WAR MEMORIAL Click here to enlarge

Click on image to zoom

Listing Details

Report

Location: OLD EPISCOPAL CHURCH-HIGHWAY 18

City: CLERMONT

State: Iowa

Zip Code: 52135

Type of Memorial: Statues of High Ranking Military Officers

Access: Private

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

Submitted By: IOWACIVILWARMONUMENTS.COM

HENDERSON WAS A LIEUTENANT IN THE IOWA 12TH INFANTRY REGIMENT WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED AT FT. DONELSON AND CORINTH. THE WOUND AT CORINTH REQUIRED AMPUTATION OF HIS FOOT. LATER HE WAS APPOINTED, AT THE AGE OF 24, COLONEL OF THE IOWA 46TH INFANTRY REGIMENT, A 100 DAY REGIMENT FORMED IN 1864. THIS 7 FOOT BRONZE STATUE, USING THE SAME MOLD, IS ALSO IN FAYETTE AT THE HENDERSON-WILDER LIBRARY AT UPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY.


Support The Memorial Day Foundation's mission to protect, preserve, honor and remember our nation's war memorials

Donate Here

There are 69854 total listings in our War Memorial Registry