About the Main Monument When was it dedicated? Sept. 14, 1887.
What is it made out of? Sculpture: Amherst, Ohio silver grey
sandstone; Base: Amherst, Ohio silver grey sandstone. What size
is it? Sculpture: approx. 12 ft. 4 in. x 3 ft. 1 in. x 3 ft. 1
in.; Base: approx. W. 6 ft. x D. 6 ft. Who made it? King, R. R.,
sculptor. Karkadoulias Bronze Art, founder. What does it depict?
Sculpture consists on a shaft on a two-tiered base. On the front
face of the shaft is a uniformed soldier crouching behind a
stone fence. He is firing his rifle and is kneeling on his
proper right knee. The 11th Corps crescent appears at the top
front. This is the site’s only sandstone monument and the only
Ohio monument built with Ohio materials. Unfortunately, the soft
stone does not weather well like harder stones such as granite
and the monument is actually slowly melting away under the
elements. Little can be done to correct this problem What does
it honor? It marks the location where the 55th Ohio held the
ground that the 1st and