Illinois Civil War Memorial Dome Interior - illimemorialdome141660
by Frank J Benz
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Illinois Civil War Memorial Dome Interior - illimemorialdome141660
Artist
Frank J Benz
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Photograph - Photography
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The beautiful Illinois Memorial has forty-seven steps in its vast stairway, one for each day that Vicksburg was under siege. This is an interior image of the inside of the dome looking straight up through its round open hole roof at the sky. The open hole on this dome lets natural daylight enter the interior allowing the light to be spread about the circular room with a wonderful soft light.
The memorial is modeled after the Roman Pantheon, and on the interior rounded walls there are sixty unique bronze plaques covering the interior walls. These plaques name all 36,325 Illinois soldiers who too part in the Vicksburg Campaign. The monument stands sixty-two feet in height.
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September 17th, 2016
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