The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-15
A STATUE FOR S7EDMAN
CIYIL VAR HERO SELECTED BY
 CONNECTICUT VETERANS

Bronze Figure of Griffin A. Stedman, | Leader of the Charge at Antietam
 Bridge.
 The Camp-Field Monument associa-
 tion held an important meeting at the office of General Thomas McManus in 1 the Hills block this forenoon and deci- | ded on portrait statue of General Grit- | fin A. Stedman in connection with the
 soldiers monument that is to be erected on the corner of Camp-field avenue and Bond street, which has been given for { that object by MT. John c. Barker, one 1 of Hartfords oldest and most respected | citizens. The avenue has been lad out | and graded by the city and the monu- ment site placed in condition for the | purposes to which it is hereafter to be
 devoted The first steps towards the
 erection of the monument were taken at
 the annual reunions of the Twenty-sec-
 ond and Twenty-fifth regiments two years ago. MT. John c. Barker, who is | man of public spirit and an earnest | friend of the veterans, gave the site and | the deeds to the property were passed to | trustees. These trustees are eX-Mayor
 John G. Root, life president of the Twen- i ty-second Regiment association, Colonel | Crarles A. Jewell and Colonel William | F. Cone, also of the TWenty-second' l General Thomas McManus, Watson Ii. | Bliss and ex-Congressman William E. 1 Simonds of the Twenty-fifth. By the
 terms of the deeds to the trustees it is
 required that monument costing SIX
 thousand dollars shall be erected. The
 trustees, however, hope to raise ten
 thousand dollars for the object. The work will occupy the site of the old
 camp grounds of the Fifth, Eighth,
 Tenth, Fourteenth, Sixteenth, Twenty
 second and Twenty fifth regiments.
 The last two of these commands will de-
 vote the money belonging to them from 1 the state for the erection of suitable
 memorials in the field, and the legisla- ture at it's last session authorized the
 expenditure, The monument is to per
 petuate the memories of the old camp
 field where the Connecticut troops ren-
 dezvoused before leaving the state for
 the front during the civil war. The aim
 will be to have this field so distinctly
 marked for the future that it's location
 will by no possibility become matter
 of uncertainty. At the present tlme'
 there exists neither through record nor
 tradition any knowledge of the exact
 spot in this capital city of Connecticut
 where any one of the numerous organl-
 cations of the Revolutionary war was
 rendezvoused,
 The neighborhood and surroundings
 of the old camp-field are now in most
 beautiful part of the city, and nave
 grown into a most attractive residen-
 tial district. The magnificent park sys-
 tenn of Hartford will naturally make the
 monument an important feature, since It
 is to be located at the converging point
 of seven different approaches, and Will
 be directly in range of vision for long
 distance on each.
 The veterans of the war who nave
 the work in charge are deeply interested
 in the project, and nothing will be ieft
 undoue toward making the spot one of
 memorable interest in the future of the
 capital.
 General Griffin A. Stedman, who has
 been selected by the association as the subject for the portrait statue, was a tvpical hero in the civil war. He was ] DCl0 III llllS titS bpHest'' y v N's-' graduated from Trinity college in the
 class of 1859. At the outbreak or the war he had not been out of the college , surroundings two years. He had seleee- ed the legal profession, and was III the , office of s. H. Perkins, of PfAlads lpi'la
 when the war was inaugurated He et, { listed in the Washington Grays Of tna' citv. responding among the first to the
 calI for volunteers Returning to Hart ford while the Fifth regiment was being ' organized, he raised a company for tha' , command. and entered the serviee as
 captain of Company 1, Wllllam D
 CogsweH, now of New York, and a mem
 ber of the board of trustees of Trinity , and William H. Webster who was foi
 years identified with the work of tht Nation Civil Service commission, were officers with him in the company Al 1 three were Trinity men, making tflo o
 collegians unsurpassed in the serVlce o
 the state At the present tune Colohe :, Cogswell is the only survivor Genera Stodmau was in the Fifth from the tlm' a of his enlistment in June, 1S6l until hi' . appointment as major of the EleVentf | Connecticut. November 21 1S6l. Il
 less than year from the time of hl' D commission as captain of Company l O the Fifth he was appointed lieutenant ' colonel of the Eleventh. giving nm u broader opportunities for the eXerclse O. - his abilities as a leader. He received hl' o commission as lieutenant-colonel Jun t ii 1862. He was at Antietam with hi - regiment. and after the death Of Colone Y IT w. Kinssbury on that sanSuinar. V field he took command. He led the as Q sault at Antietam bridge. which wa U captured after desperate encounter O The value of the bridge to the thioI e forces was recognized from the tact tha d General Burnside was ordered to hold l d at all hazards after it's capture. Colone
 Stedman was seriously Wounded Ill LII r assault. The battle of Antietam wa g fought September IT, 1862 On the 25tf e of that month the gallant leader or th O Eleventh was made colonel ot the regl = ment His commission was aWarde' e him on account of the splendid service ! which he had rendered after the death O - Colonel Kingsbury. His intrepidity an @ skill were recognized on all sides. Ii 1T was instinctively an organizer or mli''a " rv forces and was the most chlValrlc O q leaders in the field Men idolized him a q a commander. He was mOrtally Wouhu
 ed in front of Petersburg, Va, August @ 1864, and died within few hours. Ill e commission as brigadier- general, siGnc e August 5. was on it's way to nm lror