11th Massachusetts Monument

11th Massachusetts Monument

11th Massachusetts Monument Photograph by Mark Mones
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1885. Emmitsburg Rd. and Sickles Ave.

Can there be a more ferocious marker to the persistent rage twenty years later of North to South than this disembodied arm, still swinging a saber? And yet, there is a bit of New England humor, for the inscription ends with a title from Shakespeare—not “Measure for Measure,” but rather “All's Well That Ends Well.”

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