Daniel Miles died of wounds received repulsing Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.
Category Archives: American funerary portraits
The Jago monument
The monument of George Jago compels interest for its use of a popular song and its odd iconography.
The Rev. Leonard Black Monument
Born enslaved in 1820, he was seen to his rest by 5000 admirers in 1883.
The most wonderful mausoleum in the world
I experience elegiac emotions while falling into this picture as I view it—as the designer no doubt intended.
Her Courageous Spirit Lives On
A masterpiece by Oronzio Maldarelli in Spring Forest Cemetery.
Villard monument
To borrow the Guide Michelin’s phrase, “vaut le voyage.”
Still on guard
Outstanding and informative private monuments erected for two Union Civil War veterans.
Hartranft obelisk
An attractive setting to photograph, with a dismaying surprise.
The light of Lister
The 1898 Lister monument in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery caught during a thunderstorm.
Schäflein
A Moravian hymn graces the monument of little Luther Campbell in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
