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I keep picturing The Hulk ripping his shirt off and screaming "Hulk Smash!" seeing that, @7thWisconsin
THAT doesn't even look like Sherman! It looks like a cross between something Civil Warrish and a possible modern dictator!
THAT doesn't even look like Sherman! It looks like a cross between something Civil Warrish and a possible modern dictator!
There's always the so-called "Boot" memorial dedicated to the memory of Benedict Arnold's shattered LEG (said to be "the only American part of him...") on the Saratoga Battlefield NHS in Upstate New York, though Arnold - and his still-attached leg - are buried elsewhere:The burial site of Jackson's arm at Ellwood has to be in the running for the most unusual monument. The monument itself is not strange, it is just a simple stone, but I cannot think of any other examples of a person's body part having its own marked grave site.
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Where is it located?Not Civil War related but Jules Verne's grave is quite interesting
I was gonna say N.B. Forrest disguised as Yosimite Sam.This gets my vote as being the most unusual monument, I say unusual, what I really mean is...hideous.
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Where is it located?
Most of the statue itself is still pink, indeed, due to the owner deciding to keep it that way to avoid cleaning it over & over again, can't say I blame him.Yeah the Forrest monument on the side of the interstate in Nashville is pretty hideous. Also I think the face got vandalized pink.
Yes, I think it's the face that gives it that 'comical' appearance. I'm guessing the lawyer/sculptor was still honing his skillsthat face could have been done just a little better, in my opinion.
That definitely is interesting ... and maybe a little disturbing.
That definitely is interesting ... and maybe a little disturbing.
Rather than outside Paris, isn't it actually right IN Paris, in Cemeterie du Pere Lachaise? I seem to possibly vaguely remember seeing it, although it was French military personages I was really looking for: Napoleon's Marshals Ney, Massena, Grouchy, Jourdan, and others I can't now remember, along with other notables I stumbled across such as the painter J. L. David, famous Renaissance lovers Abelard and Heloise, expatriate writers Gertrude Stein and her lover Alice B. Toklas, and even Oscar Wilde!
Rather than outside Paris, isn't it actually right IN Paris, in Cemeterie du Pere Lachaise? I seem to possibly vaguely remember seeing it, although it was French military personages I was really looking for: Napoleon's Marshals Ney, Massena, Grouchy, Jourdan, and others I can't now remember, along with other notables I stumbled across such as the painter J. L. David, famous Renaissance lovers Abelard and Heloise, expatriate writers Gertrude Stein and her lover Alice B. Toklas, and even Oscar Wilde!
"The Sphinx" by Martin Milmore always struck me as odd. In Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. He was responsible for many more traditional and finely sculpted soldiers' monuments. It seems it was more the vision of man who commissioned it than the sculptor's. Not sure it works.
https://mountauburn.org/sphinx/
This monument brought me to tears the first time I saw it. Arnold is the great tragic story of the Revolution..There's always the so-called "Boot" memorial dedicated to the memory of Benedict Arnold's shattered LEG (said to be "the only American part of him...") on the Saratoga Battlefield NHS in Upstate New York, though Arnold - and his still-attached leg - are buried elsewhere:
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