Peace

JOURNALING: Oct 30, 2016; Ohio Statehouse Grounds; Honors Civil War troops…and women left behind.

This statue was commissioned from Bruce Wilder Saville, faculty member at The Ohio State University and unveiled in 1923. The winged female figure holds aloft the universal symbol of peace, an olive branch.

Inscription on Left Bronze Plaque on Back of Base: When our country sent out the call to arms for the preservation of the union Ohio sent more than three hundred thousand of her sons….they had the faith that right makes might and in that faith dared to do their duty….this memorial is erected in grateful tribute to their devotion and self sacrifice.

Inscription on Right Bronze Plaque on Back of Base: Men win glory in the fierce heat of conflict but the glory of woman is more hardly won….upon her falls the burden of maintaining the family and the home nursing the sick and wounded and restoring the courage of the broken she endures the suspense of battle without its exaltation this memorial is erected in grateful tribute to the loyal women of 61-65 without whose help no victory or lasting peace could ever have been won.

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