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Show o r . ;: x tun 5 1 Ml mi w j&a I ( r-'- it ;?:-: r if I tl'J -j v v ! f - Av,v a. ,-A .f3 J l y . ; , Joy T$gsyC?Tr . ; , i 1 ' - V ' . &r r i 1 - x - AJalfe4. -vr'j tawctt tJi l eral Loean is repiesented as riding 1 - 1 : L IT ' nlm-ie thfi line of battle his sword eral Loean is represented as riding along the line of battle his sword drawn and carried low in his right hand The horse is represented in the attitude of moving at a slow trot. On one face of the pedestal of the monument Is a group representing General Logan with other leading offl cers of the Army of the Tennessee, while opposite is a group representing General Logan taking the oath of office of-fice as United States senator, administered admin-istered by Vice-President Arthur. All of these equestrian statues have cost considerable sums. The General Scott statue cost $20,000, and the pedestal ped-estal $25,000 more. The bronze figure of McPherson cost $23,000, and the pedestal $25,000. The sum of $40,000 was paid for Ward's matchless status of Thomas, and $25,000 for the ped estal The statue of General Hancocfc involved the expenditure of $49,000 aU told, and the Logan statue cost $65,-000, $65,-000, of which sum congress appropriated appropri-ated $50,000. As has been said, the maximum expenditure will be made in the case of the great memorial to General Grant, upon which at least $250,000 will be expended. Because no definite program was 1 ai E C E N T arrange- Pk ments for the com- iL pletion this year of M&ffla a $250,000 statue to jgyfir? Gen. U. S. Grant and a the unveiling of a i statue to Gen. Phil, tjpg", Sheridan, the dash- U$.iml ing cavalry leader tyjjr of the Civil war, xsftx" following close upon hseA tile dedication of g similar bronze figures fig-ures of Generals Sherman and McCIellan, betokens the intention of the American people to provide, through their representatives in congress, a most notable testimonial testimo-nial in sculpture to the leaders of the war for the Union. No other country in the world can boast so pretentious a tribute to the heroes of any conflict in its history. To honor by counterfeit presentments present-ments in marble and bronze the saviors sa-viors of the republic will cost the nation, na-tion, ultimately, millions of dollars. 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 monument mon-ument should constitute McPherson's tomb. Beneath the statue is a vault designed to receive re-ceive 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 over a field of battle. Surpassingly inspiring and magnificent is the statue erected to Gen. George H. Thomas by his comrades of the Army of the Cumberland in 1874. The ."Rock of Chickamauga" is rep resented reining in his horse in order that he may obtain a better view of a field of battle.. J. Q. A. Ward is the sculptor of this masterpiece, 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's sculpture sculp-ture so splendid a representation of a horse as the charger on which the Virginian is seated. A fine equestrian statue of General Hancock was unveiled in 1890. Alike to the t 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 or tne (Jivii war it came about that some of the lesser leaders were commemorated in bronze ere the greatest Union leaders received- homage in this form. However, the past few years has witnessed the beginning of compensation in this direction. The first step was the provision provi-sion of a heroic equestrian statue, with an attendant group of symbolic figures of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Next after the Sherman statue came the statue to McCIellan, which shows "Little Mac" seated upon- a splendid charger, and portrays the great organizer of the Union army wearing the 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. but unquestionably it will be worth all it costs as a lesson in patriotism for coming generations. genera-tions. 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 emphasized em-phasized by the Increasingly elaborate character charac-ter of the monuments erected. The climax will come a year (or less) hence, with the completion of that splendid memorial to General Gen-eral Grant for which the congress of the United States has appropriated a quarter of a million dollars, and for the foundation of which ground has been set aside in the shadow of the United States canitol. The scene of this shrine to military fame is, appropriately enough, the national na-tional capital the city of Washing- ton, which is coming year by year to take on more and more the character of a beautiful creation in architecture and sculpture and landscape gardening garden-ing that Is the property of the whole people. The statues to the victors in the struggle between the north and south occupy conspicuous positions in the most advantageously located of the parks and circles with which the seat of government abounds verdure-clad verdure-clad breathing spaces which- seem as though they might have been specially special-ly provided as sites for just such heroic he-roic 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 N the patriotic pilgrim to the capital. Mucli 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 equestrian. 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 title of commander. com-mander. The first equestrian statue ever erected in the Western Hemisphere, Hem-isphere, was the one of George HI. of England, which stood in Howling Green at tbo foot of Broadway. New York city, and which during the war lor independence was melted up and cast into bullets by patriotic daughters daugh-ters 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 Lackson. which stands In the park directly di-rectly in front of the Whirc House at Washington. It is estimated that there are 400 equestrian statues in the world, ef which number the city on the Potomac will have, with the com pletion of the Grant memorial, a total of 12, most of them representations o? Civil v ar heroes. The first statue arrarged for in honor of a warrior identified with the Civil war was that in which Gen. Winueld Scott is depicted mounted on a charger at rest. This monument was ordered in 1SG7, 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 cannon captured during the Mexican war In which G?neral Scott won his greatest fame. The pedestal for this statue is niado up of five huge pieces of granite .-i ill C im Ann 'p-.arries, and at the .;.- .i!:t;ilnd, the largest . .. ,.v,r cut from quar |