The CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS
of WASHINGTON, DC
Since many members of the BRCWRT live
in close proximity to
Washington, DC (or "The District" as it is locally known), I
thought it might be fun to send you on a whirlwind tour of the
DC monuments commemorating the Civil War.
[Somewhat-Necessary Legal Disclaimer]
A book entitled "Testament to Union - Civil War Monuments in
Washington, DC" by Kathryn Allamong Jacob with photographs by
Edwin Harlan Remsberg (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)
offered up many of the well-known but also many lesser-known or
even unknown monuments on this off-the-beaten-path tour. This
book is the source for all descriptions and quotations, unless
otherwise noted.
Also, here is chronology of Civil War events in and
around Washington DC, 1861-1865. This is taken from the book "Mr.
Lincoln's City" by Richard M. Lee.
Please click HERE
The White House Vicinity:
13th - 19th Sts, The Ellipse - Dupont Circle
1. Admiral David Farragut (Bronze)
Location: Farragut Square, 17th & K Streets, NW
Sculptor: Vinnie Ream Hoxie
Date: 1881
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2. Brigadier General James Birdseye McPherson
(Bronze)
Location: McPherson Square, 15th St. between I & K Streets,
NW
Sculptor: Louis Rebisso
Date: 1876
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3. Nuns of the Battlefield (Bronze)
Location: Rhode Island Avenue & M Street, NW
Sculptor: Jerome Connor
Date: 1924
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4. Lieutenant General Winfield Scott (Bronze)
Location: Scott Circle, Massachusetts Avenue & 16th St., NW
Sculptor: Henry Kirke Brown
Date: 1874 (no formal dedication)
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It
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5. Major General George H. Thomas (Bronze)
Location: Thomas Circle, Massachusetts Avenue & 14th
Street, NW
Sculptor: John Quincy Adams Ward
Date: 1879
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6. Rear Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont
Memorial Fountain (Marble)
Location: DuPont Circle, Massachusetts & Connecticut
Avenues, NW
Sculptor: Daniel Chester French
Architect: Henry Bacon
Date: 1921
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7. Major General John A. Logan (Bronze)
Location: Logan Circle, Vermont Avenue at 13th & P
Streets, NW
Sculptor: Franklin Simmons
Date: 1901
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19. General William Tecumseh Sherman
(Bronze)
Location: 15th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
(behind the Treasury Bldg)
Sculptor: Carl Rohl-Smith
Date: 1903
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22. Major General Winfield Scott
Hancock (Bronze)
Location: Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street, NW
Sculptor: : Henry Jackson Ellicott (1847-1901)
Date: 1896
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The Capitol
Vicinity: The Reflecting Pool at the Capital
8. Veterans of Foreign Wars
Tribute (Bronze)
Location: Maryland Avenue, Constitution Avenue, 2nd
Street, NE
Sculptor: Felix de Weldon
Date: 1976
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9. James A. Garfield (Bronze)
Location: 1st Street and Maryland Avenue, SW
Sculptor: John Quincy Adams Ward
Architect: Richard Morris Hunt
Date: 1887
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10. Ulysses S. Grant (Bronze)
Location: Union Square, East end of the Mall
Sculptor: Henry Merwyn Shrady
Architect: Edward Pearce Casey
Date: 1922
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11. Peace Monument (Marble)
Location: Pennsylvania Avenue at 1st Street,
NW
Sculptor: Franklin Simmons
Date: 1877
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Judiciary
Square Area: Pennsylvania Avenue - G
Street, between 3rd and 9th Streets
12. Major General George
Gordon Meade Memorial (Marble)
Location: Pennsylvania Avenue, between 3rd
and 4th Streets, NW
Sculptor: Charles Grafly
Date: 1927
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13. Albert Pike
Memorial (Bronze)
Location: 3rd and D Streets, NW
Sculptor: Gaetano Trentanove
Date: 1901
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14. Pension Building,
Frieze (Terra Cotta)
Location: Judiciary Square, F Street
between 4th & 5th Streets, NW
Sculptor: Caspar Buberl
Date: 1882
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15. Lincoln,
Judiciary Square (Marble)
Location: Judiciary Square, D Street
between 4th and 5th Streets, NW
Sculptor: : Lot Flannery (1836-1922)
Date: 1868
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16. Grand Army of
the Republic, Benjamin Franklin
Stephenson (Bronze)
Location: 7th Street, between
Pennsylvania and Indiana Avenues, NW
Sculptor: : John Massey Rhind
(1860-1936)
Date: 1909
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Capitol
Hill, NE
18.
Emancipation (Bronze, on 12-foot
granite pedestal)
Location: Lincoln Park, East
Capitol Street between 11th &
13th Streets, NE
Sculptor: : Thomas Ball
Date: 1876
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Northwest,
Connecticut - Massachusetts
Avenues
20. General
Philip H. Sheridan (Bronze)
Location: Massachusetts Avenue
and 23rd Street, NW
Sculptor: : Gutzon Borglum
(1867–1941)
Date: 1908
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21. Major
General George B. McClellan
(Bronze)
Location: Connecticut Avenue
and Columbia Road, NW
Sculptor: : Frederick
MacMonnies (1863-1937)
Date: 1907
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It
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