The Civil War Monuments in Washington, … and the Grand Army of the … the National Park Service surveyed and registered the 18 Civil War statues in Washington, …
Washington DC. tweet share … 17 D.C. area military monuments, museums, and … this is the second-largest equestrian statue in the U.S. It depicts the Civil War …
The bronze statue of George Henry Thomas is considered one of the finest equestrian monuments in Washington, D.C.
A statue of Confederate Civil War general Robert E … director of the Starr Center at Washington … Many Civil War commemoration statues—such as the one …
After the Civil War, equestrian statues served as memorials to battle deaths. Legend has it that if the horse has one leg raised, the rider was harmed during the battle. If the horse is standing upright on its hind legs, the rider is said to have died in battle, and if all four hooves are on the ground, the rider survived the battle unharmed.
The state reserved one of its two allocated statues for George Washington, … Booker T. Washington. If it needs a Civil War … editor at The Atlantic.