Ron tunison civil war games

By Joseph Gannon

Last October we lost one of the finest historical artists in the United States when acclaimed sculptor Ron Tunison passed away at the age of 66.

Ron was most well known for a number of Civil War monuments he sculpted. Among those are three that were especially noteworthy within the Irish-American community: His monument to the Irish Brigade in Antietam, his tribute to Cork born Confederate General Patrick Cleburne at Ringgold Gap, Georgia, and a bust of General Thomas Francis Meagher that was placed on the Wolfe Tone Club in his hometown of Waterford, where Meagher first flew the tri-color flag of the Irish Republic.

Ron was born in Richmond Hill, N.Y in December 1946.

As one might expect, he showed great artistic ability early in his life, but it was wedded with a great love of military history. Two of his first artistic efforts were 5^th grade drawings of Davey Crockett at the Alamo and Pickett’s Charge at the Gettysburg.

Ron would go on to study in