The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 58, July 1954 - April, 1955 Page: 295
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Texas Collection
Hatch, William Helms, Benjamin Holt, Archibald Hotchkiss, Sam
Houston, John Johnson, Augustus Jones, George Wallace Jones,
Hiram Kennedy, Philemon Lacey, Lewis Lawshe, Abel Logan,
George Massengill, Ephraim McCaleb, Francis McCann, Milton
McClanahan, Charles F. Mercer, Abel Morgan, Samuel Noah,
Milton P. Norton, James Overton, David F. Owen, Tallcut Patch-
ing, George A. Patillo, William G. Petters, Jesse E. Phelan, Laban
Rice, Charles Reece, Evi Rodgers, Mark Rollins, Jack Shackelford,
James Shaw, Nathaniel Smith, Joseph Varner, John F. Webber,
and Zadok Wood.
In the group of miscellaneous reproductions there are copies
of Martin Lacey's Mexican War bounty land file, a letter from W.
D. Wynne's Civil War correspondence, George Fearhake's report
on the Civil War prisoners of Sabine Pass, and a letter of the
Spanish-American War period written by Weyman Taliaferro.
On April 30, 1954, at the Association's fifty-eighth annual meet-
ing which followed a horse theme, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton
Magruder of San Antonio presented to the Texas State Historical
Association a bronze statue of a horse, symbolically named "Free-
dom."
The gift was from the Magruder's private collection of art work
and statuary. Both Mr. and Mrs. Magruder have been prominent
for many years in the activities of the Texas State Historical Asso-
ciation. Mrs. Magruder is sponsor of a Junior Historian chapter
in the Brackenridge High School.
The nine by thirteen-inch statue is the work of Pompeo Coppini
of San Antonio, noted sculptor of the University of Texas' Little-
field War Memorial. Coppini was inspired to do the "Freedom"
statue while observing Kentucky riding horses after he was com-
missioned to do an equestrian group commemorating Morgan's
Raiders, a Confederate fighting group. At the end of each day,
when the saddles and bridles were removed from the horses, the
animals experienced a moment of freedom which captured Cop-
pini's imagination. After completing the Morgan's Raiders statu-
ary, Coppini did the horse figure which he named "Freedom."
Numerous examples of Coppini's sculpture may be seen at the
University, the State Capitol, and in other Texas cities. His repre-
sentations of men in Texas history include Stephen F. Austin, Sam295
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