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Giles Waldo Shurtleff: Leadership in the Cause of Freedom by John Mercer Shurtleff Statue Photo by Jonah Valk Donning his old uniform, Giles Waldo Shurtleff made his way to the Main Street studio of Emily Ewing Peck. The old man was fond of Peck, young enough to be his daughter and gracious enough to make the summer heat of 1897 a little more bearable. Certainly the heat outside Petersburg thirty-three years earlier was worse, Ohio summers were rarely as brutal as those in tidewater Virginia. The uniform differed, as well. His brevet to Brigadier General did not come until the conflict was nearly over. So, with his heavy sword strapped on, and in full uniform, he posed for the sculptor. The process took several days, and despite constant pain from a failing lung, Shurtleff patiently stood so that he could be immortalized in bronze. [1]  The artist displayed a plaster cast of the general with his arm outstretched at Oberlin College’s Speer Library the foll owing September. Any one of the visitors who had seen Shurtleff lecture recognized the familiar pose. Peck unveiled her work and said that the form on display was incomplete. She intended to add another figure, specifically a “negro to whom the General is presenting a gun.” The artist intended to salute Shurtleff’s contribution to the acceptance of African American soldiers during America’s great Civil War. After discarding earlier ideas of having the figure of Shurtleff protecting a former slave with an American flag, she decided to have the General handing the black man a gun. “He will be at the general’s left hand,” explained Peck, “a contented, rather rough figure, just leaving Page 1 of 23 Giles Shurtleff 4/7/2011 http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/ShurtleffBio-Mercer.htm

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