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Virginia Monument

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Owner
  
National Park Service

Sculptor
  
Frederick William Sievers

Virginia Monument

Address
  
Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA

NPS unit
  
Gettysburg National Military Park

Similar
  
North Carolina Monument, Pennsylvania State Memorial, Gettysburg Battlefield, Little Round Top, Gettysburg National Cemetery

Virginia monument featuring robert e lee gettysburg battlefield


The Virginia Monument is a Battle of Gettysburg memorial to the commonwealth's "Sons at Gettysburg" (Battlefield) with a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on his horse Traveller and a "bronze group of figures representing the Artillery, Infantry, and Cavalry of the Confederate Army". The equestrian statue is atop a granite pedestal and the group of six standing figures is on a sculptured bronze base with the figures facing the Field of Pickett's Charge and the equestrian statue of Union General George G. Meade on Cemetery Ridge.

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History

The granite pedestal without either sculpture was dedicated on June 30 for the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. On June 8, 1917, Virginia governor Henry C. Stuart presented the completed memorial to the Assistant Secretary of War.

References

Virginia Monument Wikipedia