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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: May 5, 2022
Caption: The Picket Monument
Additional Description: Battle of Hanover
June 30, 1863
between Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick’s
3rd Cavalry Division Army of the Potomac
and
Major Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s Cavalry Division
Army of Northern Virginia

Erected by
The Commonwealth
of
Pennsylvania
1904

The statue is a life-sized bronze of a mounted Union cavalryman on picket duty, standing on a granite pedestal. Created by Boston sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin, this monument is located at Center Square. The word picket refers to a soldier, in this case mounted, guarding his fellow soldiers.
Submitted: May 7, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p653771
File Size: 8.606 Megabytes

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