Charles P. Stone supervised the construction of the pedestal that the Statue of Liberty stands upon.
This is notable because Stone was a General in the Union army during the U.S. Civil War. On October 21, 1861 General Stone ordered an attack at Ball's Bluff, Virginia. The attack failed badly. Stone was then carted off to jail (no charges were ever filed), where for 8 months he sat in a cell with a window that looked directly out upon Bedloe's Island - where the statue was later placed...