The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

| dered in 1867, and was erected seven
years later. General Scott Is in the uni.
form OF a Lieutenant General. The
material for the figures of the horse and
rider was derived from cannon captur.
ed during the Mexican wal In which
General Scott won his greatest fame.
The pedestal for this statue Is made up
of five pieces of granite cut in Cape
Ann quarries, and at the time they
were obtained, the largest pieces Of
granite ever cut from quarries in this
country.
Next came the erection Of the statue
to General James b. Mcpherson. This
vas erected through the efforts of the
Society Of the Army Of Tennessee, and 1t
constitute Mcpherson q tomb. Beneath
the statue is a vault designed to 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 owe
a field Of battle.
Surprisingly inspiring and magniR.
cent 10 the statue erected to Gen. Geo.
II. Thomas by his comrades Of the Army
of Cumberland in 1874. The Crock of
C~hickamagua" is represented refining 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 master.
! piece, and every person who has seen
II will readily agree with the art critics
that there is not In the whole range
of the worlds sculpture so splendid a
representation Of a horse as a charger
on which the Virginian is seated.
A fine equestrian statue of General
Hancock was unveiled in 1896. Alike to
the Thomas statue, the pose Is one Of
action, the hero of Gettysburg being
portrayed as q 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 re.
spects. General Logan Is represented AZ
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 monu.
ment is a group representing General
Logan taking the oath Of Office as
United States Senator, administered by
ce.President Arthur.
All Of these equestrian statues have
cost considerable sums. The General
Scott statue cost $4,000 dollars, and
the pedestal $4,000 more. The bronze
figure of Mcpherson cost s23 5000, and
the pedestal $4,000. The sun Of $40.
900 was paid for Wards matchless
statue Of Thomas, and $4,000 for the
pedestal. The statue Of General Han
cock involved the expenditure Of $40,
900 all told, and the Logan statue cost
$4,000, Of which sum congress appro.
priated $4,000. AS has been said, the
maximum expenditure will be made in
the case of the great Memorial to Gen.
eral Grant, upon which at least $3.50.
900 will be expended.
Because no definite program was fol.
lowed In honoring the heroes Of the
Civil war, 1t cam about that some of
the lesser leaders were commemorated
in bronze ere the greatest Union lead.
ers received homage in this form. How.
ever, the past few years has witnessed
the beginning of compensation in this
direction. The first step was the provi.
sion of a heroic equestrian statue with
an attendant group of symbolic figures
of General v lillian Tecumseh Sherman.
Next after the Sherman statue TO
Mcclellan, which shows "Little Mae"
seated upon a splendid charger, and
portrays the great organizer of the TN.
ion Army wearing the service cap which
became familiar TO all the boys in blue
who followed him. Now the nation
has added TO it's open.air gallery of
fame a statue Of General Phil. Sheridan.