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Artist: Hermon Atkins MacNeil
Civil War Sailors Memorial
Hermon Atkins MacNeil,
1921
* big
stele,
angel,
group of people,
standing,
lying and kneeling,
suggestion of a ship,
hats,
weapons,
anchor,
seahorses,
eagles
* inscription:
front top: In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free.
front bottom: All who have labored today in behalf of the Union have wrought
for the best interests of the country and the world not only for the
present but for all future ages.
back: Port Royal, Port Hatteras, Port Henry, Hampton Roads, New Orleans,
Memphis, Port Hudson, Charleston, Mobile Bay, Drury's Bluff, Cherbourg,
Fort Fisher, 1961-1865.
* South side of the Parkway, West of 20th.
* 39.959420,-75.172960 [map] [nearby]
* On the Parkway and Pennsylvania tour
* Exhibits: War
* See also:
+phillyhistory.org 1959 picture of this piece
+another phillyhistory.org 1959 picture of this piece
Civil War Soldiers Memorial
Hermon Atkins MacNeil,
1921
* big
stele,
group of people,
standing people,
angel,
hats,
weapons,
flag,
eagle,
horse
* The last picture is of the reference to this piece from the mural at 12th and Walnut
* inscription:
front top: One country, one Constitution, one destiny.
front bottom: Each for himself gathered up the cherished purposes of life,
its aims and ambitions, its dearest affections, and flung all with life
itself into the scale of battle.
back: Donaldson, The Peninsula, Antietem, Murfreesborg, Chancelorsville,
Gettysburg, Chickanagua, Chattanooga, Petersburg, Atlanta, Appomatox,
1861-1865
* North side of the Parkway, West of 20th.
* 39.959650,-75.172650 [map] [nearby]
* On the Parkway and Pennsylvania tour
* Exhibits: War
* See also:
+phillyhistory.org 1959 picture of this piece
+another phillyhistory.org 1959 picture of this piece
