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George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a United States Army Major General who commanded the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865. He fought in many of the key battles of the Eastern theater and defeated the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle ...
Height. 23.5 feet (7.2 m) Dedicated date. October 18, 1887. Dedicated to. George Meade. 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 ...
MN 250. The Corinthian column is topped by a bronze statue of Brigadier-General George Stannard. 13th Vermont Infantry Monument. Hancock Avenue. 39°48′35″N 77°14′11″W / 39.809665°N 77.236269°W / 39.809665; -77.236269 (13th Vermont Infantry Monument) James H. Walling, designer.
General George Gordon Meade Memorial (1915-27), Washington, D.C. The most prestigious commission of Grafly's career was the Major General George Gordon Meade Memorial (1915–27), a monument for the National Mall in Washington, D.C. [ 36 ] General Meade (1815–1872) had been commander of the decisive Union victory at Gettysburg , and the ...
National Park Service. The Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence is a memorial depicting the signatures of the 56 signatories to the United States Declaration of Independence. It is located in the Constitution Gardens on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The memorial is accessible to the public by crossing a wooden ...
Fountains in front of the imposing entrance to the then named National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in May 1972. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, with more than 28,000 Western and Native American art works and artifacts. The facility also has the world's most extensive ...
The monument cost $37,500. [7] The sculpture of Meade gazes across the battlefield toward the statue of his opponent, Robert E. Lee. Following the production of Meade, Bush-Brown created a 9,000-pound monument of General John F. Reynolds (killed in action July 1, 1863), [8] in which the horse has only two feet on the ground. [9]
The George Gordon Meade Memorial located at the south front . While composing the building's exterior, Louis Justement, the architect, employed the grand scale and urban presence of pre-war federal architecture, but relied on "simplicity and architectural expression based on adaptation to functions". The building's H-plan was generally composed ...