Oak Bluffs Civil War Statue Rededicated | The Vineyard Gazette Oak Bluffs Civil War Statue Rededicated – Vineyard Gazette The Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain at Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs was rededicated Friday afternoon in ceremonies celebrating the completion of an ambitious two-year restoration project.
A statue of a lone Civil War soldier stands watch over the Oak Bluffs waterfront, atop a pedestal adorned with cryptically worded plaques. It is the legacy of Charles Strahan, a veteran of the Confederate army who lived out the "second act" of his life on Martha's Vineyard.
The statue in Oak Bluffs is not "A monument dedicated to the Confederate Soldiers". The fourth of four plaques on the base of the statue acknowledges the Confederate soldiers. That plaque was installed in an effort to heal the schism over which a war was fought 65 years earlier.
The Oak Bluffs Civil War monument was meant as a gesture to mend the tensions between the North and South. —Stacey Rupolo A tribute to the Merchant Marines can be found outside the American Legion hall in Tisbury.
And well they should, since Martha’s Vineyard is home to one of these statues as well. I’m referring to the seven–foot tall Union soldier whose former home was at the base of Circuit avenue, but now stands opposite the Oak Bluffs ferry terminal, behind the town’s police headquarters, greeting thousands of tourists each year — many of them black — during the Island’s high season.
“In memory of the restored Union, this tablet is dedicated by Union veterans of the Civil War and patriotic citizens of Martha’s Vineyard in honor of the Confederate soldiers.” “I was the first Confederate soldier to honor the Northern people,” Strahan boasted at the rededication ceremony.
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