The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-28
THE STEDMAN STATUE
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Design Is by Moyinhnn, tho New York seuiptor-Stn,ne When Completed Southern Part of Hartford.

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 Frederick Moyinhan, the New York sculptor, has just completed the plaster cast of the heroic-szed statue of the late Brigadier- General Griffin A. Sted- man, Jr., the famous Connecticut officer, who was killed before Petersburg dur ing the late civil war.
 The figure has been divided into parts for convenient handling and was shipped to Providence, R. l., to be cast in bronze by the Gorham company.
 The statue, which is dgniied and commanding in appearance, stands eight feet high. The pose is easy and natural In the right hand is a pair of field glasses. while the left hand rests easily on the hilt of the sword. The dress is that of brigadierg general of the period of 1862 with the regulation military hat, sword belt, epaulets and scarf
 The legs and feet are encased in cav airy boots with spurs attached, the whole resting gracefully on substan- tial plinth, the left foot slightly raised higher than the right It will when completed surmount a handsome gran ite pedestal at the, intersection of six grand avenues in Camp Field, where the military contingent of the state camped, prior to it's leaving for the 1 front.
 STEDMAN's CAREER.
 General Stedman was born in Hart | ford, January 6, 1898, and was the eldest son of the late Griffith A. Stedman, and grandson of Griffith Stedman, one of | the old residents of Hartford. He gIad- uated at Trinity college in the class of | 1859, intending to follow the profession of law. After graduating from college | he read law in the state library for a | year and then entered the office of S. c. Perkins a lawyer of Philadelphia. Upon the breaking out of the war he | joined the Washington Grays of that city, intending to offer his services to his country
 When Colonel Colt commenced rais- ing a regiment in the summer of 1861, young Stedman, personally we'll known to Colonel Colt, received the appoint ment of second lieutenant and raised company of men chiefly in Litchfield county, Connecticut. When the regi- ment was organized as the Fifth Con- necticut, he was commissioned as cap tain of Company l and with the regi- ment left Hartford July 20, 1861, for the department of the Shenandoah, where it performed arduous service. Captain Stedman showed so much efficiency as an officer that upon organi- zing the Eleventh regiment he was transferred to it with the rank of major and accompanied the Burnside expedi- ton from Annapolis. He fought gal lantly with the Eleventh through the battle of that campaign and at the bat tie of Antetam. September IT, 1862, af- ter the death of Colonel II. w. Kings bury, he led the regiment in the famous assault upon the Stone Bridge, which Burnside carried and held and was se- verely wounded in the engagement.
 LED IN MAN BATTLES
 Stedman was then promoted to be colonel and led the war-worn regiment in all it's battles up to the beginning of Grants Richmond campaign, being from the first identified with the Elev- enth, honoring and making it's name and more than sharing it's perils. He was foremost in the line at the battles of Balls Bluff, Newberne, South Moun- tain, Antietam. Fredericksburg. Suffolk, Drurys Bluff and Cold Harbor. He served after Buffers advance to Bermu- da Hundred as commander of the Sec ond brigade, Second division. Eigh- teenth Army corps, with such valor and ability that for his coolness, interpidity and skill displayed on repeated occa- sonS, he was recommended to be pro- noted to the rank of brigadier-general and his recommendation was endorsed by his superior officers.
 As was said of him by a comrade, The was foremost in battle, disposing our lines heading our charges, careful of his men, prodigal of his own life, all ways brave, but always cool. In two great exposures he had been frequently struck. yet was wonderfully preserved. Often when his person escaped, his clothes were riddled with bullets. Two days after the charge at Cold Harbor his coat carried seven bullet holes He was sought in counsel not less than he was trusted in action. His judgment was wide in scope and ripe beyond his years"
 HIS DEATH WOUND.
 The morning of Friday, August B. 1864, during the musketry firing which followed the explosion of a rebel mine at Petersburg, General Stedman re- seived his death wound. one shot pass ing through his stomach, and died at eleven o'clock the next morning.
 General Ames. by whose sido he was standing when he received his mortal wound in announcing the fact to Gene ral Ord, stated that we had lost one of the finest soldiers in the army" Thus | at the early age of tweuty-six, having entered upon career of glorious prom | ise, he was stricken down. adding an- other to the lost list of heroes who gave | their lives for their country.
 His commission as brigadier-general ! reached his tent just as he was dead | and while his body was, being en-