This statue of General William Shepard stands in a small triangular park, just south of the green in Westfield, Massachusetts. It was designed by Augustus Lukeman, a student of Daniel Chester French. The monument was dedicated on September 3, 1919, during the town’s 250th anniversary celebration. At the dedication, Arthur S. Kneil said, “It is placed . . . where he gathered and drilled his minutemen and whence he led them out to Dorchester Heights and the great Revolution.” After the war, Colonel Shepard received a commission as a major general in the Massachusetts state militia. He was in command during Shays’ Rebellion when the militia fought with Regulators over control of the Springfield, Massachusetts, arsenal in January, 1787.