Oliver P. Morton and Reliefs is a public artwork by Austrian artist Rudolph Schwarz, located on the east side of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the intersection of North Capitol Avenue and West Market Street.

The soldier on the proper right is holding a rifle and wearing a sword on his left; this figure is uniformed as well.

Below the figures at the base of the pedestals are two flags crossed with olive branches, and there is an oak wreath of leaves and acorns in the center.

The Great War GovernorOn the plaque below the first on the lower part of the pedestal are the words: The annual meeting held in June, 1904, The Department of Indiana.

An organization of the honorably discharged soldier and sailors who served in the Army and Navy to preserve the integrity of the Republic of the United States of America, in the Great Civil War from A.D. 1861 to 1865, memorialized the legislature of the State of Indiana to appropriate sufficient money to erect this monument to perpetuate the memory of Oliver Perry Morton

On February 9, 1906, the Commission met and designs were presented by Franklin Simmons from Rome, Italy; Hugh A.

Price from Chicago, Ill.; and Rudolph Schwarz from Indianapolis, Indiana, for bronze figures 12 feet high and the tablets for $9000.

Plans by Lowe were accepted and after legal notice was given in the newspapers, bids for the pedestals were received on April 10, 1906.

G. Blake & Co. Rudolph Schwarz received another contract to provide and furnish the materials for two bronze bas-reliefs to be placed on the middle columns of the balustrades for $500 apiece.

[3] The materials for the foundation upon which the pedestals sit is deeply laid solid masonry of limestone and cement.

[2] The family's name was originally Throckmorton, known by the emigration of Morton's grandfather from England around the beginning of the Revolutionary War who settled in New Jersey.

[4] When he was young Oliver worked as a hatter's apprentice for four years before attending college at Miami University in Ohio.

[2] Morton began his legal career reading law in the office of Judge Newman of Centerville.

Morton was originally a Democrat and opposed to the extension of slavery, but he became one of the organizers of the Republican Party.

As Senator he worked for the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment, was involved in the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and was a trusted advisor of the Republicans in the South.