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March 01, 2012

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Jason Mazzone

Col. George W. Gowen. Petersburg, Virginia.

Alfred Brophy

Jason! You're right again. Very nicely done.

The image in the relief is of the entrance to the mine under the Confederate lines, at what would become "the crater." In fact, this statue is along Crater Road, just a couple of blocks over from another US monument, at Fort Mahone:

http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2010/03/virginia-monuments-on-the-road-from-williamsburg-to-chapel-hill.html

One of these days I need to return to talking about the law of monuments.

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