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The George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument, also known as Sighting the Enemy, [4] [5] is an equestrian statue of General George Armstrong Custer located in Monroe, Michigan. The statue, sculpted by Edward Clark Potter , was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on June 15, 1992 [ 3 ] and soon after listed on the National Register of ...
Custer Monument: 1879 Dedicated in 1879 in honor of George Armstrong Custer, this monument once stood near the site of present-day Taylor Hall. The pedestal once had a statue of Custer atop of it, but after objections to the statue design by Custer's wife, the statue was replaced by an obelisk.
Custer National Cemetery is within Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, the site of Custer's death. The George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument of Custer, by Edward Clark Potter, was erected in Monroe, Michigan, Custer's boyhood home, in 1910. Fort Custer National Military Reservation, near Augusta, Michigan, was built in 1917 on ...
Thomas Ward Custer (March 15, 1845 – June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and two-time recipient of the Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War. A younger brother of George Armstrong Custer , he served as his aide at the Battle of Little Bighorn against the Lakota and Cheyenne in the Montana Territory .
The Custer Equestrian Monument highlighted contributions of Edward Clark Potter, who sculpted the statue, and Hunt Brothers, who designed its base.
During World War II Fort Custer was expanded to serve as a training ground and as a place to hold German prisoners of war. Of the German POWs held during World War II, 26 died and were buried in the cemetery. Sixteen of them were killed when a truck carrying them from a work detail collided with a train near Blissfield, Michigan.
Washington is seated astride Haseltine's 1934 statue of the racehorse Man o' War. General Simón Bolívar, by Felix de Weldon, 18th Street at Virginia Avenue, 1959. General Bernardo de Gálvez, by Juan de Ávalos, near the State Department, 1976. Colonel Michael Kovats de Fabriczy, by Paul Takacs, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, 2003.
Congress approved of a statue, to be made from 20 condemned bronze cannons, and for $10,000, of which $6,000 had been subscribed by citizens of New York. [1] The monument was originally located near the academy's headquarters building near the site of present-day Taylor Hall along Thayer Road.