Year 1980 Location Washington, D.C. Created 1980 Owner National Park Service | Type Bronze Artist Caroline M. Hufford Subject Peter Muhlenberg | |
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Dimensions 120 cm × 120 cm (48 in × 48 in) | ||
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg is a bronze statue by Caroline M. Hufford. It is located at Muhlenberg Park, at Connecticut Avenue and Ellicott Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. It was dedicated on October 26, 1980.
The inscription reads:
(Sculpture, back below proper left shoulder:)
Caroline Hufford (foundry mark)
(Base, front:)
GABRIEL
MUHLENBERG
1746-1807
SERVING
HIS CHURCH
HIS COUNTRY
(Base, north side:)
1787-1807
(Base, back:)
1774-1783
(Base, south side:)
1768-1776
(Back of wall/bench:)
IN GRATITUDE
TO
JOHN F. HARBESON, FAIA
ARCHITECT signed Founder's mark appears.
(Plaque inscription at south end of wall/bench:)
CLERGYMAN
JOHN PETER GABRIEL MUHLENBERG
BORN AT TRAPPE PENNSYLVANIA OCTOBER 1, 1746
ELDEST SON OF ANNA AND HENRY MELCHIOR MUHLENBERG
ATTENDED UNIVERSITY OF HALLE GERMANY 1763
ORDAINED LUTHER MINISTER 1768
PASTOR LUTHERAN CHURCHES NEW JERSEY
MARRIED TO ANNA MEYER 1770
ORDAINED EPISCOPAL MINISTER 1772
PASTOR LUTHERAN AND EPISCOPAL CHURCHES WOODSTOCK VA. 1772
PREACHED HIS "TIME TO PRAY, TIME TO FIGHT" SERMON 1776
AND RECRUITED A REGIMENT FROM VIRGINIA
HE WAS THE "FIGHTING PARSON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"
(Plaque inscription in the middle of the wall/bench:)
SOLDIER
COMMISSIONED COLONEL OF VIRGINIA MILITIA 1775
COMMANDED EIGHTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT
WHICH BECAME THE "GERMAN REGIMENT" OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY
FOUGHT AT CHARLESTON AND PHILADELPHIA
PROMOTED TO BRIGADIER GENERAL 1777
WINTERED WITH HIS TROOPS AT VALLEY FORGE 1777-1778
FOUGHT AT BRANDYWINE, GERMANTOWN, MONMOUTH AND STONY POINT
MEMBER, ROYAL ARCH MASONIC LODGE, PHILADELPHIA 1779
NAMED COMMANDER OF ALL FORCES IN VIRGINIA 1780
FOUGHT AT PORTSMOUTH AND YORKTOWN
PROMOTED TO MAJOR GENERAL 1783
RETIRED NOVEMBER 3, 1783
A LISTING OF
THE PRINCIPAL DONORS
TO THIS MEMORIAL
IS GIVEN IN THE SOUTH SIDE
ENTRANCE TO THE NARTHEX OF
ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
(Plaque inscription on north end of the wall/bench:)
STATESMAN
RETURNED FROM MILITARY SERVICE TO WOODSTOCK VIRGINIA 1783
RECEIVED LAND GRANT OF 11,662 ACRES IN OHIO RIVER VALLEY
"IN CONSIDERATION OF SEVEN YEARS SERVICE
AS BRIGADIER GENERAL IN THE VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL LINE"
FOUNDER-MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI
ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA 1787
ELECTED TO FIRST HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1788
RE-ELECTED THIRD CONGRESS 1791-1795, SIXTH CONGRESS 1799-1801
ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE 1801
SERVED AS COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, PORT OF PHILADELPHIA 1801-1807
DIED OCTOBER 1, 1807 AT AGE 61