The monument was created by American artist Douglas Tilden and located in Lownsdale Square, in the Plaza Blocks of downtown Portland, Oregon.

[4] The memorial statue was designed by sculptor Douglas Tilden and installed in Lownsdale Square in Portland's Plaza Blocks in 1906 to honor the 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment troops who served in the Spanish–American War.

[3][5] It features two Howitzer cannons, set low to the ground, which were collected in 1902 by Henry E. Dosch.

He was given permission by the War Department to bring them to Portland after he found them buried in sand in Charleston, South Carolina.

[7][8] The monument committee favored a design similar to one in honor of the 39th Pennsylvania Infantry at Gettysburg with a bronze statue and a marble pedestal.