Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards (1859-1931) was the commander of the 26th Yankee Division from Connecticut during most of World War I.

The 26th Division was one of the most decorated divisions and one of the longest under fire during the war.

 Edwards himself received a Distinguished Service medal.

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Courtesy of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut, Inc.

The statue is dedicated to the memory of the Connecticut men who suffered in military prisons during the Civil War.

This is a copy of the statue that stands in the National Cemetery in Andersonville, Georgia, the site of the infamous prison in which so many young men died.