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Show .wr:.'.:: a v:cvrmi.ir.r Washington Is fninoua the world over for the number of its statues, but few visiters pause to mushier to what an extent the nillitnrv amines predominate. There nro. of course, several slalnea to sliilesnien and Jul Ists. notably those cointncnior.ylvo ot John Mntslinii. Dnnlol Webster nml llenjnmln K.nnlillu. but for the numi part these plcturcsipio l tlmonlals bear tribute In Hie nation ' warriors Tho figures of Wn-'hlngton nml Greene, the foremost leaders of the Revolution, have been reproduced. A statue of Jncksnti ninrks his achieve ments In the second war with (Iron: llrltain. (b n. Hoott s sinlue Is a re minder of his service In the Mexican war: whereas, several of the great commanders of the Civil war have had their fmne porpotnutoil by this means, sin! mill others will he similarly simi-larly honored within the next few years. Much of the IUliressleuosH of the Btntiies lii Washington l doubtless iluo to the fact II iit s iiiiv of thor.i nro dp Irian. It la customary In ni: countries to I'ortrnv ns "no n on horstlnek" only the soeiilhsl royal personages or men who were aetnal roinniiiii lers of tr i or on loved the title of rmiininiuler. Tin- first eipies. trlnn aintue ever erected In the west ern hemisphere was the one of George III. of I'.ngbili'l. which, during Hie wnr for Independence, wus molted and cast Into bullets by patrloilc daughters of Miss Columbia The oldest equestrian monument now standing In the new world Is a coins sal statue of Chnrlea IV. of Bpaln. In the City of Mexico. Tho Initial statue stat-ue In tho I'nlleil Htnies Is the renowned re-nowned ono of Oon. Andrew Jnckson In Lafayette square, at Washington, directly oppnalie the White House. Tho monument, showing the hero of Now Orlenns mounted on a spirited spirit-ed steed, rearing In a precarious altl- tudo. has been from tlmo Immemorial pictured In school readers and geographies, geog-raphies, and Its appenrnnco Is probably prob-ably moro fnmlllnr to the great majority ma-jority of I'nrle Barn's ell 1enH than any other statue In the world. This stntuo, llko all the military memorials at tho cnpitnl. In of bronze, nnd wns cant from cannon which Jnckson captured cap-tured from tho llrltlsh in tho war of 1811. Too necond equestrian stntuo erected erect-ed hi Washington, thut of (ten. Ceo, WnOitngton. llko the Jackson memo-rt. memo-rt. from old cannon. Gen; Washington, dressed In colonial uniform, uni-form, Is represented as witnessing the battle of Princeton. Ills horse Is shrinking before the shot, but the general Is unmoved by the danger. Following the eroctlon of the memorial memo-rial to the nation's liberator came the placing of a commission for a statuo of Gen. Wlnflnld Bcolt. This monument monu-ment was ordered In 18C7, and waa erected seven years later. Tho material ma-terial was derived from cannon captured cap-tured during the Moxlean war. Oen. Scott Is represented aa mounted Dn a charger at rost. lie Is depicted as a lieutenant general, and not aa he appeared ap-peared at the tlmo of hla victories In toe Mexican war. The equestrian statue of Oon. Nathaniel Na-thaniel Greeno, the Itevolutlnnary hero, he-ro, was erected by congress In 1877. Tbe hero of the masterly campaign iplnat the llrltlsh In the south Is represented In Continental uniform, ested upon a charger and pointing with his right hand as though direct-Ins direct-Ins a military movement. The stntuo lii::V, fcol in height The first of tho equestrian memorial! memori-al! to civil war heroes erected at the I I !-: I j j i ' i . si;:.'. Gen. Nathaniel Greene. nitlon'a capital was tho statue of Gen. Jswen 11. Mel'lierson, which was bb-curtd bb-curtd through tho efforts of the Bo-! Bo-! clelf f the Army of tho Tennessee. It Intended thnt tho monument I ihoul'l constitute Mol'herBon's tumb. anil I 'fuiit h thu st iliie la a vault dolled' do-lled' I to recelvo the body of tho gallant gal-lant odioer killed near Atlanta; but iur Interment was never niailo. Tho jtamo represents Vo I'lien oti an ho led In battle. In bis right hand he ! hoW field glasses, nnd Is port rayed I si P7lng deliberately over a field of batile- firrwslngly Inspiring and mngnlfl-cMit mngnlfl-cMit la the statue erected to Gen. Geo. H. Ttiirr.aa by his comrades of the ArtnT of the Cumberland In 1874. The I jtucl of Chlekamauga Is represented , rt'iiiliiK In lit hnrnn In orW thnt ho nmy obtain a brtlcr view of the IV Id if tmttliv A flin riiuHtrlnti Mat tin nf Orn. Mnnrork whh un veiled In Washington In IMMJ. Alike to tlio ThnniftK nfnti.f Mm (ioho In ono of action, thn tioro of OvttyMhtirK Im'Iiu ropn'nontPi! an a eoimuiMKl'T. Wiitrtifiil and alert. In the i i-ntep nf nctlvltlcM. The ntntue of (ten. I,)uiin. the tlrnt of the tnemori-'.I tnemori-'.I lo Ih unvi'llvd tlurliiK thn prenrnt rciitury. In unique t ti many iVHpeela. (Ion. Iioicnn Ih reprenentiMl an rhlitip nlotiK ihe line of hattle. hi nword drawn nnd rMrrltd low In hln rlht hnnd. The home In reirerntel In tho attlhido of moving nt a low I rot. OH one fine of the pclt-ntnl of the inontinieiit Ih a group reproNrntinK (.D. 1 .ou tin tiiltlnt; the onth of ofllf" nft I'liltiil Htnti'H Kcnntor. ndtnlnlHler I oil hy Vln. I'rcHid. nt Arthur, j Ihe ImnnKUiK nppri-Htit.oii of the hlntorliiil and artlMiic lm of the .Mini-s trlnn pint new ni the tint lonul i Mpltal l well exhl.-nc'-d hy thenw niK win rosi.y of rnnirn-fH In appro jirluiuw: inoin y fr Mirh memorlnlx. In Home v,- fiU'ii-N nnd ndinlrn of ft warrior lo he honored have i-on-trlhulfd nil Mr n portion of the vtv- , $S ... J r " . . .Jk.ry, Gen. Bcott. of a statue, but under llieio circumstances circum-stances congress has made approprl- aliens for thn pedestal. Tho Gen. Jackson atetue cost complete tiie sum of $.ro, noil, and a like amount wan paid for tho memorial to Gen. Washington. Wash-ington. The Oen. Hcntt statuo cost fSO.000 and the pedestal $:T,,l)iiO moro. For the atatue of Gen. Nalhanlol Greene the original appropriation waa 110.000, but an additional appropriation of 110,000 waa made later In order to complete the memorial. Tho hronxe figure of McPherson cost 1:3.000 and the pedestal LT,000. The sum of was paid for Ward's matchless statue of Thomas and $:'., ono for the pedestal. pedes-tal. The atatue nf Gen. Hancock Involved In-volved tho expenditure of 149.000 all told, and the Ixigan statue cost ICS,-000, ICS,-000, of which sum congress appropriated appropri-ated 150.000. Kor the great memorial to Oen. Grant congress has appropriated appropri-ated a quarter of a mllllun dollars; tho sum of IfiO.OOO haa been sot aside for the pedestal of the statue of Me-Clollnn, Me-Clollnn, upon which work haa not yet commenced, and a like expenditure will probably bo mado for the base of tho atatue of Kherlilan, for which the tentative plans havo been mndo. The contract for the statuo of this dashing dash-ing cavnlry leader, It may bo noted, has fittingly been awarded to the sculptor who created tho atatue of Thomas. |