New Statues

[matthew mckeon]

I just had a great idea!

There was a thread a couple of years back showing Confederate monuments, ranging from the simple and sincere, to the elaborate and impressive. I was just at Gettysburg, and saw all sizes and types of monuments. Silly ones like the Tammany Regt., majestic ones like the Lee monument, controversal ones like the Longstreet, seeming to rage right in the dirt. Kinetic ones like the First Minnisota, a bronze infantryman eternally at the charge.

And of course my favorite monument: the 54th Massachusetts and Shaw memorial, right on Boston Common.

What part of the civil war hasn't gone a monument: and deserves one!?

 

[matthew mckeon]

The reason this came to mind was I was whinging on and on about fugitive slaves(I mean really, if you had a fugitive slave in your family tree, you would be a lot prouder of him, than if you had a slavecatcher!) on another thread.

What about a monument to the fugitive slave?
One option: a couple: the woman looks over her shoulder fearfully. does she heard the dogs? But the man looks forward as he strides along. He is unafraid, because the act of escaping slavery was one of courage and not of fear.
Location: I believe that Richmond has an avenue devoted solely to monuments. However even better: at one of the more visited plantations, so lovingly perserved, the statue placed going out of the grounds, so to speak.

 

[Baggage Handler #2]

Yellow Tavern (but there it is already)

I buried this link in another thread, but it might be at home here. Google street view has extensive coverage of Richmond, including the JEB Stuart marker shown in this link on google maps, here.

 

[Jules362]

I just had a great idea!

And of course my favorite monument: the 54th Massachusetts and Shaw memorial, right on Boston Common.

What part of the civil war hasn't gone a monument: and deserves one!?

Hi Matthew,

Is the monument you mention, the 54th Massachusetts, the one that was done by St. Gaudens, portraying a black Union regiment? Some years ago, in New Hampshire, I visited the St. Gaudens estate, and there is a "duplicate" of the original on the grounds. Looking at it, up close, the intensity of expressions on those faces was heart-wrenching. I can't think of a time I've ever been so touched by a statue.

 

[matthew mckeon]

Yes, its the St. Gaudens one.