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Colonel Thomas Cass
Artist:
Richard Edwin Brooks
Location:
Boston Public Garden, on Boylston St. Mall
Location
Boston Public Garden, on Boylston St. Mall
United States
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Neighborhood:
Back Bay
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
1899
Medium:
Bronze and Granite
Collection:
Funders:
Unknown
Description:
An Irish immigrant, Colonel Cass (1822-1862) founded the “Fighting Ninth” Regiment during the Civil War. The Ninth Regiment consisted entirely of volunteers, most of them Irish-American. Cass was killed leading his troops in battle at Malvern Hill in Virginia. Although an earlier memorial to Cass was displayed shortly after his death, it received so much criticism that Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy secured funds for a new work in the colonel’s honor. Sculptor Richard E. Brooks cast this bronze sculpture in 1899 and received gold medals for it at two World’s Fairs, the Paris Exposition of 1901 and the Buffalo Exposition of 1902.
