Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.

United States historic place

Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Admiral David G. Farragut

Location| Washington, D.C.
NRHP reference No.| 78000257[1]
Added to NRHP| September 20, 1978 [2]

The Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. are a group of seventeen outdoor statues which are spread out through much of central and northwest Washington, D.C.[3] The statues depict 11 Union generals and formerly included one Confederate general, Albert Pike, who was depicted as a Mason and not as a general. The Pike statue was torn down on Juneteenth 2020, as part of the George Floyd protests.[4][5] Two Union admirals are honored, although Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont's statue was removed to Wilmington, Delaware, and he is now honored with a fountain. Other statues depict nuns, peace, emancipation, and the Grand Army of the Republic.

In accordance with Executive Order 11593 by President Richard Nixon, the National Park Service surveyed and registered the 18 Civil War statues in Washington, D.C. to aid in their preservation.[6][7][8] They are listed as a group on the National Register of Historic Places.

The African American Civil War Memorial 38°54′29″N 77°1′33″W﻿ / ﻿38.90806°N 77.02583°W﻿ / 38.90806; -77.02583﻿ (African American Civil War Memorial) was completed in 1997 and is not included in the group of historic statues.

## Statues[edit]

Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Emancipation Memorial

1. Samuel Francis DuPont Memorial Fountain 38°54′35″N 77°2′36″W﻿ / ﻿38.90972°N 77.04333°W﻿ / 38.90972; -77.04333﻿ (DuPont Memorial Fountain)
2. Nuns of the Battlefield 38°54′21″N 77°2′25″W﻿ / ﻿38.90583°N 77.04028°W﻿ / 38.90583; -77.04028﻿ (Nuns of the Battlefield)
3. Stephenson Grand Army of the Republic Memorial 38°53′37″N 77°1′18″W﻿ / ﻿38.89361°N 77.02167°W﻿ / 38.89361; -77.02167﻿ (Grand Army of the Republic)
4. Peace Monument 38°53′26″N 77°0′44″W﻿ / ﻿38.89056°N 77.01222°W﻿ / 38.89056; -77.01222﻿ (Peace Monument)
5. Ulysses S. Grant Memorial 38°53′23″N 77°0′46″W﻿ / ﻿38.88972°N 77.01278°W﻿ / 38.88972; -77.01278﻿ (U.S. Grant)
6. Major General James B. McPherson 38°54′7″N 77°2′3″W﻿ / ﻿38.90194°N 77.03417°W﻿ / 38.90194; -77.03417﻿ (Gen. McPherson)
7. Admiral David G. Farragut 38°54′7″N 77°2′20″W﻿ / ﻿38.90194°N 77.03889°W﻿ / 38.90194; -77.03889﻿ (Admiral Farragut)
8. Major General John A. Logan 38°54′35″N 77°1′47″W﻿ / ﻿38.90972°N 77.02972°W﻿ / 38.90972; -77.02972﻿ (Gen. Logan)
9. Major General George Henry Thomas 38°54′20″N 77°1′57″W﻿ / ﻿38.90556°N 77.03250°W﻿ / 38.90556; -77.03250﻿ (Gen. Thomas)
10. Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott 38°54′26″N 77°2′12″W﻿ / ﻿38.90722°N 77.03667°W﻿ / 38.90722; -77.03667﻿ (Gen. Scott)
11. General Winfield Scott Hancock 38°53′37″N 77°1′20″W﻿ / ﻿38.89361°N 77.02222°W﻿ / 38.89361; -77.02222﻿ (Gen. Hancock)
12. General John A. Rawlins 38°53′45″N 77°2′31″W﻿ / ﻿38.89583°N 77.04194°W﻿ / 38.89583; -77.04194﻿ (Gen. Rawlins)
13. General Philip Sheridan 38°54′44″N 77°3′2″W﻿ / ﻿38.91222°N 77.05056°W﻿ / 38.91222; -77.05056﻿ (Gen. Sheridan)
14. Major General George B. McClellan 38°55′0″N 77°2′47″W﻿ / ﻿38.91667°N 77.04639°W﻿ / 38.91667; -77.04639﻿ (Gen. McClellan)
15. General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument 38°53′46″N 77°2′3″W﻿ / ﻿38.89611°N 77.03417°W﻿ / 38.89611; -77.03417﻿ (Gen. Sherman)
16. George Gordon Meade Memorial 38°53′32″N 77°0′59″W﻿ / ﻿38.89222°N 77.01639°W﻿ / 38.89222; -77.01639﻿ (Gen. Meade)
17. Emancipation Memorial 38°53′23″N 76°59′25″W﻿ / ﻿38.88972°N 76.99028°W﻿ / 38.88972; -76.99028﻿ (Emancipation Memorial)
18. Albert Pike Memorial 38°53′41″N 77°0′57″W﻿ / ﻿38.89472°N 77.01583°W﻿ / 38.89472; -77.01583﻿ (Gen. Pike) – no longer standing

## See also[edit]

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* American Revolution Statuary
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington, D.C.

## References[edit]

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ "American Revolution Statuary". National Park Service. September 20, 1978. Archived from the original on February 20, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
3. ^ https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/78000257_text
4. ^ Umana, Jose (20 June 2020). "DC protesters topple, burn statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike". WTOP-FM. Retrieved 21 June 2020. "It was toppled by protesters at Judiciary Square in D.C. on Friday evening Juneteenth 2020\. (Photo caption)"
5. ^ Dwyer, Colin (20 June 2020). "Protesters Fell Confederate Monument In D.C., Provoking Trump's Fury". National Public Radio. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
6. ^ America's National Park System: The Critical Documents – Edited by Lary M. Dilsaver
7. ^ "VI. Executive Orders". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
8. ^ "Executive Orders". National Archives. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2021-10-05.

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C..

* Kathryn Allamong Jacob; Edwin Harlan Remsberg (1998). Testament to Union: Civil War monuments in Washington, Part 3. Photographer Edwin Harlan Remsberg. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5861-1.

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Landmarks of Washington, D.C.

Memorials|

* Adams
* African American Civil War
* American Veterans Disabled for Life
* Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument
* Mary McLeod Bethune
* Boy Scout
* James Buchanan
* John Carroll
* D.C. War
* Albert Einstein
* Emancipation
* Dwight D. Eisenhower
* John Ericsson
* David Farragut
* First Division
* Thomas Gallaudet
* James A. Garfield
* Kahlil Gibran
* Samuel Gompers
* Ulysses S. Grant
* Holocaust Museum
* Holodomor Genocide
* Andrew Jackson
* Japanese American Patriotism During World War II
* Jefferson Memorial
* Lyndon Baines Johnson Grove
* John Paul Jones
* Marquis de Lafayette
* Law Enforcement Officers
* Lincoln Memorial
* statue
* Martin Luther King, Jr.
* Korean War Veterans
* George Mason
* George Meade
* Peter Muhlenberg
* National Statuary Hall Collection
* Navy – Merchant Marine
* Nuns of the Battlefield
* Peace Monument
* John J. Pershing
* Second Division
* Signers of the Declaration of Independence
* The Extra Mile
* Three Soldiers
* Jean de Rochambeau
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt
* Theodore Roosevelt Island
* Taras Shevchenko
* Statues of the Liberators
* Oscar Straus
* Robert A. Taft
* Titanic
* United States Navy
* Victims of Communism
* Vietnam Veterans
* Vietnam Women's
* Washington Monument
* Daniel Webster
* World War I
* World War II
* Rainbow Pool

Other|

* Basilica of the Immaculate Conception
* Blair House
* Capitol Reflecting Pool
* Congressional Cemetery
* DAR Constitution Hall
* Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
* Exorcist steps
* Ford's Theatre
* Petersen House
* Healy Hall
* Islamic Center
* Jefferson Pier
* John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
* Library of Congress
* Jefferson
* Adams
* Madison
* National Arboretum
* National Capitol Columns
* National Building Museum
* National Gallery of Art
* Lincoln's Cottage at Soldiers' Home
* Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
* National Archives
* National Cathedral
* National Mall
* Octagon House
* Old Post Office
* Old Stone House
* Smithsonian Institution
* St. John's Episcopal Church
* The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace
* Tidal Basin
* Treasury Building
* Freedman's Bank Building
* Tudor Place
* Union Station
* United States Capitol
* Capitol Hill
* Dome
* Rotunda
* United States Supreme Court Building
* Watergate complex
* White House
* Willard Hotel

Parks
and plazas|

* Constitution Gardens
* Dupont Circle
* East Potomac Park
* Farragut Square
* Freedom Plaza
* Lafayette Square
* L'Enfant Plaza
* Meridian Hill Park
* National Arboretum
* Pershing Park
* Rock Creek Park
* The Ellipse
* Union Square
* United States Botanic Garden
* West Potomac Park

Boundaries|

* Anacostia River
* Arlington Memorial Bridge
* Boundary markers of the original District of Columbia
* Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
* Constitution Avenue
* Francis Scott Key Bridge
* Pennsylvania Avenue
* Potomac River
* Zero Milestone

Nearby
landmarks|

* Arlington National Cemetery
* Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
* John F. Kennedy gravesite
* Arlington House
* Marine Corps War Memorial
* Mount Vernon
* Netherlands Carillon
* Pentagon
* Pentagon Memorial
* United States Air Force Memorial
* Women in Military Service for America Memorial

Planned|

* Adams Memorial
* National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial
* Peace Corps Commemorative

Related|

* National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission
* National Mall and Memorial Parks
* List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
* National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.

Public art in Washington, D.C. (Outdoor sculpture, American Revolution Statuary, Civil War Monuments, commemorating African-Americans)

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Public art in Washington, D.C.

Portrait sculpture

* Dante Alighieri
* Francis Asbury
* Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
* Sheridan Circle
* Turkish Embassy
* Mary McLeod Bethune
* William Blackstone
* James Buchanan
* John Carroll
* Winston Churchill
* Louis Daguerre
* Albert Einstein
* Robert Emmet
* John Ericsson
* Albert Gallatin
* Mahatma Gandhi
* James A. Garfield
* James Gibbons
* Kahlil Gibran
* Josh Gibson
* Samuel Gompers
* Théodore Guérin
* Samuel Hahnemann
* Alexander Hamilton
* Joseph Henry
* Isabella I of Castile
* Andrew Jackson
* Thomas Jefferson
* Joan of Arc
* Martin Luther King Jr.
* Vasil Levski
* Abraham Lincoln
* D.C. City Hall
* Emancipation Memorial
* Lincoln Memorial
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* Martin Luther
* Nelson Mandela
* Guglielmo Marconi
* John Marshall
* Crown Princess Märtha of Norway
* Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
* George Mason
* Peter Muhlenberg
* Bernardo O'Higgins
* John J. Pershing
* Martin de Porres
* Alexander Pushkin
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Theodore Roosevelt
* Alberto Santos-Dumont
* Olive Risley Seward
* Alexander Robey Shepherd
* Taras Shevchenko
* Soh Jaipil
* Robert A. Taft
* Eleftherios Venizelos
* George Washington
* GWU busts
* GWU statue
* National Cathedral
* U.S. Capitol east lawn†
* Daniel Webster

| American Revolution Statuary|

* John Barry
* Edmund Burke
* Benjamin Franklin
* Nathanael Greene
* Nathan Hale
* John Paul Jones
* Tadeusz Kościuszko
* Marquis de Lafayette
* Casimir Pulaski
* Comte de Rochambeau
* Baron von Steuben
* Artemas Ward
* George Washington (Washington Circle)
* John Witherspoon

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Civil War Monuments|

* David Farragut
* Ulysses S. Grant
* Winfield Scott Hancock
* John A. Logan
* George B. McClellan
* James B. McPherson
* George Gordon Meade
* Albert Pike†
* John Aaron Rawlins
* Winfield Scott
* Philip Sheridan
* William Tecumseh Sherman
* Benjamin F. Stephenson
* George Henry Thomas

Statues of the Liberators|

* José Gervasio Artigas
* Simón Bolívar
* Bernardo de Gálvez
* Benito Juárez
* José de San Martín

Other monuments

* Armenian Earthquake
* Ashes to Answers
* Boy Scouts
* Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
* Cuban–American Friendship
* Andrew Jackson Downing
* Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution
* Holodomor Genocide
* Lyndon B. Johnson
* Law Enforcement Officers
* Signers of the Declaration of Independence
* Titanic
* Victims of Communism
* Washington Monument

| Veterans'/war memorials|

* American Veterans Disabled for Life
* District of Columbia (WWI)
* First Division (WWI–)
* Grand Army of the Republic (Civil War)
* Korean War
* Navy – Merchant Marine (WWI–)
* Nuns of the Battlefield (Civil War)
* Peace Monument (Civil War)
* Second Division (WWI–)
* U.S. Navy
* The Homecoming
* The Lone Sailor
* Vietnam War
* Three Soldiers
* Women
* World War II
* Japanese-American Patriotism

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Other works

* Ad Astra
* Allow Me
* Always Becoming
* Arbre Serpents
* The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace
* Ascension
* Australian Seal
* Bearing Witness
* Bex Eagle
* A Bridge Across and Beyond
* Bridge Tender's House
* Buffalo
* Build-Grow
* Carry the Rainbow on Your Shoulders
* Cascading Waterfall
* Chair
* The Chess Players
* Composition for the Axemen
* Continuum
* Delta Solar
* Discovery of America†
* Discus Thrower
* Don Quixote
* The Extra Mile
* Family Circle
* Federal Triangle Flowers
* Fortitude
* Freedom Bell
* Friendship Archway
* Gwenfritz
* (Here I Stand) In the Spirit of Paul Robeson
* Homeless Jesus
* Infinity
* Japanese Lantern
* Japanese Pagoda
* Lift Off
* Loss and Regeneration
* El Maíz
* The Mama Ayesha's Restaurant Presidential Mural
* Mary, Protector of Faith
* Nana on a Dolphin
* Number 23 Basketball Player
* New Leaf
* The Parable
* Pillar of Fire
* The Rescue†
* Renaissance
* River Horse
* St. Jerome the Priest
* Saraswati
* Serenity
* The Servant Christ
* She Who Must Be Obeyed
* Sky Landscape
* Spirit of Haida Gwaii
* Symbiosis
* Trigadilly
* Les Trois Grâces
* Two Men Reading
* Uncle Beazley

| Architectural
sculpture|

* Acacia Griffins
* American Legion Soldier
* Apotheosis of Democracy
* Canova Lions
* Columbus Doors
* Darth Vader grotesque
* Freedom
* Government Printing Office Workers
* Guardianship and Heritage
* Inspiration
* Man Controlling Trade
* Progress of Civilization Pediment
* Revolutionary War Door
* George Washington and the Revolutionary War Door
* Past and Present
* The Progress of Railroading
* Students Aspire

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Fountains|

* Bartholdi Fountain
* Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain
* Columbus Fountain
* Court of Neptune Fountain
* Darlington Memorial Fountain
* Dupont Circle Fountain
* McMillan Fountain
* Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain
* Oscar Straus Memorial
* Temperance Fountain

By location

* Ward 1
* Ward 2
* Ward 3
* Ward 4
* Ward 5
* Ward 6
* Ward 7
* Ward 8

Related

* Graffiti in Washington, D.C.

Key: † Removed

* Artworks commemorating African Americans
* National Statuary Hall Collection
* sculptures
* National Statuary Hall
* Outdoor sculpture

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