The Indiana State Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a 284 ft 6 in tall neoclassical monument built on Monument Circle, a circular, brick-paved street that intersects Meridian and Market streets in the
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and surrounding Monument Circle
The second Indiana Governor's Residence, built on the Circle in 1827.
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Indianapolis about 1898
1892 blueprint for Lady Victory
Oliver P. Morton
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Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, commonly known as Oliver P. Morton, was a U.S. Republican Party politician from Indiana. He served as the 14th governor of Indiana during the American Civil War, and
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Indianapolis)
…include John H. Mahoney's bronze statues of George Rogers Clark, William Henry Harrison, and James Whitcomb, and Franklin Simmons's bronze statue of Oliver P. Morton. Brewster's 30-foot (9.1 m) bronze statue of Victory crowns the obelisk. The Indianapolis monument is approximately 21 feet (6.4 m) shorter than New…
Morton, c. 1870–1880
Morton's house in Centerville
Oliver P. Morton after his first stroke
Thomas Nast asks Morton and three other huffy-looking inflationist senators, Simon Cameron, John A. Logan, and Matthew Carpenter, to pardon him for his caricatures, Harper's Weekly, June 6, 1874