The Calvary Group At The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Tank Top

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The Calvary Group is one of two Civil War sculptures at the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial on the western lawn of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. (the other civil war sculpture is The Artillery Group). Henry Merwin Shrady was the sculptor of the entire memorial, which also includes a lofty statue of Grant on horseback. For The Calvary Group he used his own face as the model of the fallen soldier (bottom right). Shrady, who spent twenty years years creating the memorial, died two weeks before its dedication in 1922.

For a close-up of the fallen soldier, a photograph of it follows this one in my gallery and can be accessed by clicking on the above "NEXT".

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...