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The Equestrian Statue of General George Gordon Meade (1895) is left of center; the field of Pickett's Charge is right. The monuments of the Gettysburg Battlefield commemorate the Battle of Gettysburg, which took place on July 1-3, 1863, during the American Civil War.
Bush-Brown's first equestrian statue was a monument to Union General George Meade on the Gettysburg Battlefield, located close to the point where Pickett's Charge was repulsed. Monument to General John F. Reynolds on the Gettysburg Battlefield; the horse has two feet raised, presenting problems of balance and construction.
Meade has been memorialized with several statues including an equestrian statue at Gettysburg National Military Park by Henry Kirke Bush-Brown; [156] the George Gordon Meade Memorial statue by Charles Grafly, [157] in front of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C.; [158] an equestrian statue by Alexander Milne ...
Phillip Sheridan equestrian statue (Somerset), Carl Heber sculptor, 1905 The figure at the top of the monument, for which Private Fair served as the model, was replaced by a bronze version of the same piece in 1993, the Fair statue now serving as another monument. [43] Dayton Memorial Hall, which commemorates the Civil War as well as other wars
Equestrian statue of George Meade may refer to. Equestrian statue of George Meade (Philadelphia) Equestrian statue of Georgia Meade at Gettysburg National Military Park. Category:
Major General George Gordon Meade is an equestrian statue that stands in Philadelphia 's Fairmount Park. The statue, which was unveiled in 1887, was designed by sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and honors George Meade, who had served as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was later a commissioner for the park.
Equestrian statue of Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa n the outer gardens of the Imperial Palace, 1904. Equestrian statue of Prince Komatsu Akihito at the Ueno Park, 1912. Equestrian statue of Field marshal Ōyama Iwao in Kudanzaka, 1918. Equestrian statue of Nitta Yoshisada close to Bubaikawara Station in Fuchū, 1988.
The commission required more than 250 marble and bronze pieces and took Calder twenty years to complete. That same year, Calder was commissioned by the forerunner of Philadelphia's current Association for Public Art, the Fairmount Park Art Association, to create an equestrian statue of Major General George Gordon Meade for Fairmount