Lady Victory, the 118-year-old, 38-foot-tall bronze sculpture that resides atop the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, 284 feet and six inches above the center of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana, has been restored and returned to her home on the circle, downtown, Sept. 2. The statue was removed from the monument when workers discovered corrosion while repairing the monument's observation deck in 2009. The $1.5 million in restorations began in Stout Field, Indiana National Guard Joint Forces Headquarters in April and were finished two months ahead of schedule. Victory will be on display at ground level until Sept. 6 when she will be placed back on top of the historic monument. Just 15-feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty, the monument was originally intended to memorialize Indiana's Civil War veterans, and, ongoing as it was built, the Spanish-American War. It is the tallest Civil War monument in America dedicated to ordinary soldiers and sailors.