The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-08-22
MONUMENT TO COL
SETH WARNER IS
FINISHED
Beautiful Memorial Erected BY
Col. 0Iin Scott.
IT is OF BARRE GRANITE
interesting inscriptions Which Tell of
Career Of Vermont's Patriotic
Commander

The work of erecting the monument |
and statue OF Col. Seth Warner, lead |
er of the Green Mountain boys aud
revolutionary hero, at Bennington
Center was completed today. The
memorial, which is the gift of Col
Olin Scott, to the Bennington Battle
Monument and Historical society, is
carved entirely from granite quarried
at Barre, VT, and is located at the
entrance to the grounds surrounding
the Bennington battle monument
dedicated IN 1891 on the anniversary
of the battle, August 16. The memoir
ial stands 26 feet over all, the statue,
which represents an officer in contin'
entail uniform, being of heroic helghth
eight feet
The donor of the memorial, who is
president of the bennington Battle
Monument and Historical society, has
contemplated the erection of the
monument for several years and the
foundation was put in place last sum-
mer. Col. Scott, whose ancestors
took an active part in the early his
tory of the town. has persistently in
sisted that Warner was not given his
proper place in history by writer's
who have touched upon the incidents
that followed the attempt of Gen Bur
goyne to seize the military stores at
Bennington Center and the inscriI-
tons upon the polished die of the
memorial have been drawn with the
purpose of correcting what Col. Scott
believes to have been an error OF the
historians. In Col. SCOTS opinion,
Warner, who arrived at the scene or
the battle with his re-inforcements OF
lfrontiersmen at a critical time should
be given a larger share of credit in
the defeat of Gen. Baum's army and
he has sought TO correct what he be-
lieyes TO be a somewhat erroneous
Impression in the inscriptions UPON
the monument.
The memorial was carved al the
works OF Harry J. Bertoli Of Mont
pelier, firm which has made spec
ialty of sculpture work and which
has sent out into all parts OF the
country many fine specimens Of gran
tie carving. The monument Is com
posed OF two bases, the larger 10 feet
square, a polished die bearing the in
scriptions. feet, eight inches in
heighth, a plinth, second die feet
eight inches high, a cap two feet In
thickness and the statue.
The Inscriptions on the die are ~
follows:
(South)
Colonel Seth Warner
Born in
Roxbury (then Woodbury. Connecti
cut May II, l74S
Resided In
Bennington, VT, 1765-17S4
Died December 26. 1854. az Roxbury
Connecticut
Where he was buried with the Honori
OF war
Aged Al
Tell Future Ages What a Hero'I
Done"
EAST
Commander OF the Green Mountain
Boys
In Battle at
Breckenridge Farms July and octo
Der. l77l
Otter Creek Is.ls 1918
r Capture OF Gown Point May II. i77h
At Lonyrtil ara Invasion of Canada
i775
Hubbardt)n j?.y Z. 1777
: Bennington A"gtrt &c. 19iI
In the Condnen'al Service 177S-l7S0
I NORTH
= An Able Statesman and Soldier
: He assisted the People OF Vermont
5 To Establish Their Independence an
8 to
= Organize the independent State O
9 Government
Q Under which They Existed
3 For a Period OF IA Years When IN
$ State
Was Admitted to the Federal Union
d And during the Revolutionary Wa
( Aided the
G 10 Colonies In Acquiring Their Ind,
o pendence.
; WEST
i Col. Seth Warner with the Gree
Mountain Boys
! Won a Decisive Victory over the Bri
ish
d Reinforcements in the Second III
y gagoment
!, AZ Bennington, August 16, i777
u Thus Saving the Military Stores
D. that Place
Gripping Burgoynes Army 80 as
Stop His
u, Invading March and Establishing
~ Turning Point
In the War of the American Revol
v. ton
a, In thus commemorative the pa
lie taken In the early history OF We
Is mont by Col Warner the donor Of q
memorial. which all who have re,
Mt II concede Is an appropriate compa
Is ion In excellent keeping with the b.
al tie monument itself. has carried o
m an act which merits the gratitude
rs the entire community. The histoT
n, interests attached 20 Bennington a
ty one OF the towns greatest assets al
Mt In thus concentrating deeds OF BE
a nington's own revolutionary hero G
nd Scott has placed the community
everlasting Indebtedness to hlms'
NO A man OF comparative moderi
rs means he has undertaken alone
nd task. which it Is hoped, In only
es. beginning OF the proper recognition
lnttr Ancestral rroainaaa