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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. Bagpipes, played by Tony Peak, began in the distance and came nearer as the Massachusetts 54th re-enactors and members of American Legion Post 257 marched to the foot of the memorial.
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Historical travesty in Oak Bluffs When you disembark from the ferry into the Martha's Vineyard Island town of Oak Bluffs, this watchful life-size Civil War soldier on a pedestal stands directly ahead on the grass.
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“‘The chasm is closed,’” it read. “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.” The statue and fountain were moved to their current location across from the Oak Bluffs ferry terminal in 1930. Over succeeding generations, the soldier lost his rifle, scabbard, and a hand, and decay began to eat away at the statue and pedestal.
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This monument depicting a Union Soldier was erected in 1891 by Charles Strahan, a former Confederate who relocated to Martha's Vineyard after the Civil War. (A historical marker located in Oak Bluff in Dukes County, Massachusetts.)
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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.
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“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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The other, a statue of a Union soldier at Ocean Park in Oak Bluffs, was actually donated after the war by a Confederate soldier who moved to the Island. Initially the gift caused some consternation among the Island’s Union sympathizers.
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