Testament to Union

by Jacob, Kathryn Allamong; Remsberg, Edwin Harlan

• ISBN13: 9780801890956
• ISBN10: 0801890950
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-13
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

Washington's Civil War Sculptures bear silent witness to the struggle to preserve the Union. They are the fruit of conscious efforts to shape the nation's memory of that struggle. First published in 1998, Testament to Union is a wonderful guide to these powerful public monuments. Kathryn Allamong Jacob offers individual descriptions of forty-one sculptures, providing a lively and informative guide to some of Washington's most beautiful and moving works of art.

Author Biography

Kathryn Allamong Jacob is curator of manuscripts at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She is the author of Capital Elites: Society in Washington, D.C., after the Civil War. Edwin Harlan Remsberg is a photographer who lives in Fallston, Maryland. His photographs appear in Maryland's Vanishing Lives, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Monuments	p. 19
Arsenal Monument	p. 21
Emancipation	p. 24
Veterans of Foreign Wars Tribute	p. 27
Freedom	p. 29
James A. Garfield Memorial	p. 33
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial	p. 36
Peace Monument	p. 51
Major General George Gordon Meade Memorial	p. 54
Albert Pike Memorial	p. 59
Pension Building	p. 63
Abraham Lincoln, Judiciary Square	p. 68
Benjamin Franklin Stephenson and the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial	p. 71
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock	p. 75
Admiral David Farragut, United States Navy Memorial	p. 78
Major General John A. Logan	p. 81
Major General George H. Thomas	p. 85
Brigadier General James Birdseye McPherson	p. 88
General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument	p. 91
Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Scott Circle	p. 99
Admiral David Farragut, Farragut Square	p. 101
Major General John A. Rawlins	p. 110
Abraham Lincoln, Rail Fence Mender	p. 114
John Ericsson Monument	p. 116
Lincoln Memorial	p. 119
Nuns of the Battlefield	p. 125
Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont Memorial Fountain	p. 128
Major General George B. McClellan	p. 130
General Philip H. Sheridan	p. 134
25th New York Volunteers Monument	p. 138
Lincoln under Fire	p. 141
African-American Civil War Memorial	p. 144
Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Soldiers' Home	p. 148
Abraham Lincoln, Fort Lincoln Cemetery	p. 151
Arlington National Cemetery	p. 153
Major John Rodgers Meigs	p. 157
Major General William Worth Belknap Monument	p. 160
Major General Philip Kearny	p. 161
Confederate Monument	p. 164
Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie and Vinnie Ream Hoxie Monument	p. 172
Major General Henry W. Lawton Monument	p. 174
Alexandria Confederate Memorial	p. 175
Appendices
Monuments by Date of Installation	p. 183
Alphabetical List of Monuments with Sculptors	p. 184
Alphabetical List of Sculptors with Monuments	p. 185
Other Sources Consulted	p. 187
Index	p. 189
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