The Washington times., 1902-10-07
local MONUMENTS COr1rG1ORATJ DEEDS OF NATIONS HEROES
COlNTP\pS TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO PRESERVED
THE UNION TO LATER GENERATIONS.
composed of circular base, steps, and
An Impressive Tribute.

An Impressive Tribute.
The bronze statue Of Gen. James B.
Mcpherson stands In Mcpherson SQUARE
It was unveiled in October, 1875. with,
appropriate ceremonies, Gen. John A.
Logan being the orator Of the day. and
delivered most impressive and impas.
stoned tribute to the young major gen.
eral who came to such an untimely end
in the battle Of Atlanta. The mouu-.
ment was erected by the Society Of thei
Army Of the Tennessee. the statue be-
ing the WORK. Of Sculptor Lewis I. Re-
basso. The pedestal was built with
money APPROPRIATED by Congress, and
contains a tomb designed for the re-.
mains Of General Mcpherson, but All
the citizens Of Clyde, oho. his nativei
city. objected to their removal. they
were not placed in this receptacle. Tho
statue and pedestal were erected at q
costso nearly s5a,o00.
Thomas Circle, at the intersection Of
Fourteenth Street. Massachusetts and
Vermont Avenues, contains an eques-'
trian statue of Gen. George H. Thomas.
on granite pedestal. ornamented WITH;
bronze tablets, upon which is the in-,
sigma Of the Army of the Cumberland.
The statue and pedestal are thirty-two,
feet in height. and they were executed
at cost Of $4,000. The Society of the
Army of the Cumberland erected the
statue and Congress provided tho
money for the pedestal. The unwilling
ceremony took place on November 49,
1879. and on the occasion there was
grand military and civic parade, and
Hon. Stanley Matthews delivered an
grafton.
A Handsome Monument.
TIE bronze statue of James A. Gar.
field is at the Maryland Avenue en-
trance to the Capitol grounds 1t was
erected by the Army of the Cumber-
land in 1887, at cost Of $23, 500, upon
pedestal erected BY Congress at a
cost Of s31,500. The recumbent figures
represent the student, warrior. and
statesman.
The heroic bronze statue of Rear
Admiral Samuel F. Dupont stands on
Connecticut Avenue, one square from
the British legation. 1t was ordered by
Congress in 1882. and was erected in
1884, at cost of $14 900.
On triangular reservation on Penn
sylvania Avenue and Seventh Street
stands the fine equestrian statue Of
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock. which was
erected some six years ago.
The memory of Gen. John A. Logan
is splendidly honored by the fine monu-
ment erected about year ago on Iowa
Circle. This memorial is unique in an
artistic sense, in that the pedestal as
well as the statue of Logan is of bronze
The former Is adorned with bas reliefs
Of the generals military and political
The monument is the
work Of Franklin Simmons, the sculptor
of the Peace Monument, and was exc
cuted at Rome, Mrs. Logan, the widow
of the distinguished soldier and states.
man, contributing many ideas relative to
the design.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman will
soon be honored by a statue, the ped
estaI for which IS already erected south
of the Treasury building and overlook-t
ing Pennsylvania Avenue.
The projected Grant monument will be
upon scaie=of grandeur never before
The Mcclellan memorial is
also designed to be a handsome struc-
ture. It will not be long, 1t may be
predicted. before all the great names OF
the civil war will be fittingly commence
rated In tie Capital Of the Nation.