William Starke Rosecrans, born in Kingston Township in 1819, was a soldier, engineer, architect, and inventor who graduated from West Point in 1842, served in the Engineering Corps, taught at West Point, engineered a river lock system, perfected lamp oil, commanded the Union Armies of the Ohio, the Cumberland, and the Missouri during the Civil War, developed a popular wartime ambulance, led his troops to victory at Iuka, Corinth, Stones River, and Tullahoma, helped raise $789,000 for soldiers relief, designed St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Columbus, later served as Minister to Mexico, Registrar to the U.S. Treasury, and as a Congressman from California, and died in 1898 before burial in Arlington National Cemetery. The base of the statue is a 40,000 pound glacial erratic pushed to central Ohio from Northern Ontario by the Wisconsin glaciers from 110,000 to 10,000 years ago, formed from ancient volcanic magma more than 2.5 billion years ago, one of the five largest glacial erratics in Ohio; Ohio’s largest crystalline erratic lies three miles east of Sunbury, a large oval-shaped granite boulder 22 feet long, 18 feet wide, 8 feet high, with a circumference of 72 feet and an exposed weight of about 200 tons.