The Battle of Hanover monument is on the north side of the Center Square in Hanover, Pennsylvania (39°48’01.7″N 76°58’59.7″W; map). At one time it was in the center of the square in a roundabout, but changing traffic patterns moved it to the side in 1968.
The statue is a life sized bronze of a mounted cavalryman on picket duty, standing on a granite pedestal. The statue was created by Boston sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin, known for his sculptures of Native American such as Appeal to the Great Spirit as well as The Angel Moroni on top of the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The monument was dedicated on September 28, 1905.
The dog at the base of the statue, known as “Iron Mike,” was originally in Hanover’s Mount Olivet Cemetery. Iron Mike has no link to the statue or the Civil War but he and the horse seem to get along pretty well.
From the front of the monument:
Battle of Hanover
June 30, 1863
between Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick’s
3rd Cavalry Division Army of the Potomac
and
Major Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s Cavalry Division
Army of Northern Virginia
From the rear of the monument:
Erected by
The Commonwealth
of
Pensylvania
1904
From the small tablet at the foot of the monument:
Restoration of the Picket 1987
through the
generosity of the
C.E. & M.E. Bechtel Estates
Restoration by
Gettysburg Restoration
and Preservation Associates