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The equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon is a monument on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The monument, an equestrian statue, honors John Brown Gordon, a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War who later become a politician in post-Reconstruction era Georgia.
The John Brown Gordon statue on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta is the only public equestrian statue in the city. U.S. Highway 19 in Gordon's native Upson County, Georgia, is named in his honor. John B. Gordon Road in Gordon's 2nd home Taylor County, Georgia, is named in his honor.
John Brown Gordon statue in front of the Georgia State Capitol. Statue of John Brown Gordon, Georgia State Capitol grounds (1907). "One of the leading proponents of both the New South creed and the Lost Cause, a philosophy that greatly romanticized the South's role in the war.
John Brown Gordon statue Governors. Equestrian statue of John Brown Gordon (erected in 1907). [9] Joseph E. Brown (also U.S. Senator and Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court) and Elizabeth Brown (1928) Statue of Eugene Talmadge (1949) Richard B. Russell (also a U.S. Senator and in the Georgia legislature) (1975)
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The cornerstone for the monument was laid on October 15, 1870, on the day of Robert E. Lee's funeral, with John Brown Gordon, a Confederate general and later Governor of Georgia, serving as a speaker at the event. [2]
The statue's base and tail survive at the New York Historical Society. George Washington, by Henry Kirke Brown and John Quincy Adams Ward, Union Square, 1856. General William Tecumseh Sherman, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Central Park, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street, 1903. Franz Sigel, by Karl Bitter, Riverside Park at 106th Street, 1907.
The brigade of Georgia troops of the Army of Northern Virginia captured the steed and brought her to their commander, General John Brown Gordon, whose own mount had just succumbed to exhaustion. At the conclusion of active combat, the horse was surrendered to the Quartermaster but purchased back by the Georgia soldiers and presented to Gordon ...