Show F 4 alm A ft ka S ce ju rm 31 F mu EA fe fawcett F eral logan Is represented as riding along the line of battle his sword swo drawn and carried low in hia his rig hand the horse is represented in N k arrange the attitude of moving at a slow tro trot r ments for the corn com on one face of the pedestal of the th this year of monument is a group representing represent in a statue to 1 boffl general logan with other leading gen U S grant and ir cers of the army of the tennessee Tennes sei the unveiling of a a r 4 while opposite Is a group representing represent in statue to gen phil general logan taking the oath of of sheridan the dash fice as united states senator admin J ing cavalry leader by vice president arthur of the civil war statues hav have ale all of these equestrian following close upon cost considerable sums the general the dedication of scott statue cost 20 and the ped pec similar bronze fig estal 25 more the bronze figure ures of generals of mcpherson cost 23 and the th herman sherman and mcclellan betokens the pedestal 25 the sum of 40 00 intention of the american people to Q was paid for ward s matchless statue provide through their representatives of thomas and 26 25 for the ped in i congress a most notable teotimo estal the statue of general hancoc nial lad in sculpture to the leaders of the 1 involved the expenditure of 49 all a ar for the union no other country countr told and the logan statue cost 65 in the orld can boast so pretentious bauo bl 1 of which sum congress ap a tribute to the heroes of any coni conflict lica 1 I abed 50 As has been said thi the in its i history I 1 maximum expenditure will be made in li to honor by counterfeit present t SL the case of the great memorial to t ments ants in marble and bronze the sa as v ci general grant upon which at leas least giors viors ore of the republic will cost the na h will be expended tion on ultimately millions mimi of f dollars v no definite was it will be worth all it costs i as a lesson in patriotism for coming corning genera tiona this labor of gratitude has been in progress for some years past and already a dozen or more of the foremost warriors in the union army have been thus honored of late years however the importance has been em pha sized by the increasingly elaborate charac ter of the monuments erected the climax 0 o will come a year or less hence with the completion of that splendid memorial to gen oral eral grant tor for which the congress of the united states has appropriated a quarter of a million dollars and tor for the foundation of which fc ground has been set aside in the shadow of the united states capitol the scene of this shrine to military tame fame is appropriately enough the na lional capital the city of washing ton which Is coming year by year take on more and more the of a beautiful creation in and sculpture and land landscape cape garden ing that Is the property of the people the statues to the victors the struggle between the north south occupy conspicuous positions the most advantageously located the parks and circles with which the seat ot of government abounds verdure clad breathing spaces which seem as though they might have been special ly provided as bites sites for just such he role or life size figures some of the statues are under the shadow of the capitol others cluster about the white house and yet others are placed where they will kindle inspiration in the patriotic pilgrim to the capital much ot of the impressiveness of the statues to the military heroes of the federal armies is doubtless due to the fact that almost all of them are eques trian it is customary in all countries to portray as men on horseback only the so called royal personages or men who were actual commanders of troops or enjoyed the fitje of corn com mander the first equestrian statue ever erected in the western hem was the one of george III ot of lugland which stood in bowling green at abi foot of broadway new york city and which during the war for independence was as melted up and cast east into bullets by patriotic daugh of miss columbia the oldest equestrian monument now standing in the new world Is a colossal statue of charles IV of spain in the city of mexico the initial equestrian statue in the united states Is the renowned one of gen andrew jackson which stands in the park dl erectly in front of the white house at washington it is estimated thit that there are equestrian statues in the world of which number the city on the potomac will have with the corn com of the grant memorial a total of 12 most of them representations of civil war heroes the first statue arranged tor for lu in honor of a warrior identified with the civil war was that in which gen winfield scott is depicted depleted mounted on a il charger at rest this monument was ordered in 1867 and was erected seven years later general scott Is in the uniform of lieutenant general the material for the figures of horse and rider was derived from canyon cam on captured during the mexican war in which general scott won his greatest fame same the pedestal for this statue Is made up of fue me auge pieces of granite cut acut in caie cale nn quay qu airles ries and at the tin ito they N r obtained the largest 1 nit vr C t froni from quai ries in this country next came the erection of a statue to gen james B mcpherson this was erected through the efforts of the society of the army of the tennessee and it was intended that the t h e mon ament should constitute mcpherson sons s tomb beneath the statue Is a vault designed to receive the body of the gallant officer killed near atlanta but such interment was never made the statue represents mcpherson as he led in battle in his right hand he holds field glasses and Is portrayed as gazing deliberately deliberate I 1 y over a field of battle surpassingly Surpass ingi inspiring and magnificent Is the statue erected to gen george 11 thomas by his comrades of the army of the cumberland in 1874 the roch rock of chickamauga is rep resented reining in his horse in order that he may way obtain a better view of a field of battle J Q A ward Is the sculptor of this master piece and every person who has seen it will readily agree with the art critics that there Is not in the whole range of the world worlds s ture so splendid a representation of a horse as the charger on which the virginian Is seated A fine 6 equestrian ques trian statue of general hancoch hancock was unveiled in 1886 1896 alike to the thomas statue the pose Is one of action the hero of gettysburg being portrayed as a commander watchful and alert in the center of activities the statue of general logan the first of the memorials to be unveiled during the present century Is unique in many respects gen followed in honoring the heroes of the civil war it came about that some of the lesser in bronze the leaders were commemorated ere greatest union leaders received homage in this form however the past few years has witnessed the beginning ot of compensation in this direction the first step was the provi equestrian statue with an sin ai ot of a heroic attendant group of symbolic figures ot of gen william tecumseh sherman next after the sherman statue came the at statue abue to which shows little mac seated upon a splendid charger and portrays the great organizer of the union army wearing tie t ie service cap which became familiar to all the boys in blue who followed him now the nation has added to its open air gallery of fame a statue of gen phil sheridan |