GAR post is not identified - Monument sits at center of old Lowell cemetery

  Notice the reference to the War of The Rebellion and the date of the monument, 1900. During the first decades after 1865, what we now call simply 'The Civil War' was viewed from the perspective of those that endured the catastrophe. It's easy to see, that from their vantage, this was a conflict started by "rebels" or "insurgents." The saddest part is that southern contingents viewed it as an attempt to protect their constitutional rights, and both may have been correct. Had the southern states prevailed their national history would tell of how their 'founding fathers' overthrew the tyranny of government ideals gone wrong.

Statuary of this era always tells a story. A rifle at the ready with hammer cocked shows a force ready to be used again, laurel leaves are a wish for peace, and so on. This one seems to hold no special message until you look very closely at the face of the soldier. He is young, very young. Perhaps the artist who sculpted this held his own vision of who went to war and suffered the most?

Several Civil War veterans are buried nearby the cannon and monument

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