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The George Gordon Meade ... It was dedicated in 1896 as the first equestrian monument erected on the battlefield and is ... The total cost of the memorial and its ...
Equestrian statue of Georgia Meade at Gettysburg National Military Park Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Equestrian statue of George Meade .
Equestrian statue of George Meade (Philadelphia) George Gordon Meade Memorial This page was last edited on 2 June 2021, at 19:21 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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 monument consists of a bronze equestrian statue of Meade atop a granite pedestal. [3] The statue has a height of 11.5 feet (3.5 m), a width of 4 feet (1.2 m), and a depth of 10 feet (3.0 m), while the pedestal has a height of 12 feet (3.7 m), a width of 10.7 feet (3.3 m), and a depth of 16.5 feet (5.0 m).
As the Paris Games approach, the palace, which will host equestrian and modern pentathlon events during the July 26-Aug. 11 Games, is starting to buzz with excitement.
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.
The Memorial was commissioned on March 9, 1908 and cost $50,000 at the time (in 2023 equating to about $850,000). The monument, with the exception of the sculptures of Robert E. Lee and the seven Confederate soldiers, was fully installed in 1913, and was dedicated at the 50th anniversary of the Gettysburg battle (1913). [ 11 ]