A Union soldier dead in the final push to take Petersburg and end the war: seven days before Lee surrendered.
Tag Archives: Civil War
Still on guard
Outstanding and informative private monuments erected for two Union Civil War veterans.
Kit
William Smith died at Bull Run and went on to better things. His abandoned kit awaits us at Green-Wood in Brooklyn.
Good ol’ boy
A man of passions was the sadly short-lived Jimmy Good of Luray, VA.
Damn, Damn, Damn!
Memoria damnata in this monument from Alexandria, VA.
Fourteen Portraits in Arlington National Cemetery
Fourteen good portraits from Arlington National Cemetery.
The J. Henley Smith funerary portrait
J. Henley Smith Mausoleum, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Photo: author. This is the J[ames]. Henley Smith Mausoleum in Rock Creek Cemetery. It was designed by Worthington and Ahrens, built by Leland and Hall about 1910. The sum budgeted for it was $20,000, with $2000 more made over to the trustees of the cemetery for […]
Making Lemonade
George E. Lemon monument, Rock Creek Cemetery. Photo: author. I suppose you would probably guess that there were trade journals for granite and marble suppliers and cutters in the great age of public art in this country, from about 1890 to 1930. One such journal, The Monumental News, celebrated the above George E. Lemon monument […]
The Brevitt Glaize portrait in Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, VA
As I once walked the grounds of Mt. Hebron contemplating my mortality, I spotted a boy sitting on one of the monuments in the distance. Scenting a treasure and coming closer, I discovered the heilige Kuh! monument (figure 1) of David Brevitt Glaize, only child of David S. and Elizabeth B. Glaize, 1888-1905. He died […]
The astonishing Sons of Maryland Monument in Loudon Park National Cemetery, Baltimore
Despite our Baltimore destination, our journey begins in Washington, D.C. If you live in or have visited Washington, you may have seen Montgomery Meigs’ Pension Building, now the National Building Museum. Built from 1882 to 1887, this magnificent structure is one of the few utilitarian American Victorian buildings which can stand up against the finest […]
