http://warmemorialhq.org/items/show/641?output=atom2024-03-28T07:39:32-05:00Omekahttp://warmemorialhq.org/items/show/641GEN William Sherman CW Memorial Central Park NYC]]>
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var str = 'As the centerpiece of the Grand Army Plaza on the southeast corner of Central Park, this large gilded bronze equestrian statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman was the last major work of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. General Sherman graduated from West Point and rose to fame in the Civil War where he had a leading role in the defeat of the Confederacy. Sherman died in New York in 1891 and many of his friends in the Chamber of Commerce commissioned a statue of him for the city. Sherman’s figure on the horse is being led by an allegorical female figure representing peace; an African American woman from Georgia, Harriette Eugenia Anderson served as the model for the figure. At the feet of Sherman’s horse is a pine branch representing his march through Georgia. The sculpture rests on a large granite pedestal with three bronze wreaths on each side. ';
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