The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens
Henry Van Dyke
This is the soldier brave enough to tell
The glory-dazzled world that 'war is hell':
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,
And rides through hell to save his country's life.
April, 1904.
William Tecumseh Sherman was one of the leading Union generals of the American Civil War. He is famous for his devastating march through Georgia. This equestrian statue of Sherman is by Augustus St. Guadens. He took a bust of the general in 1893 and completed the Sculpture in Paris and Cornish, New Hampshire. It was unveiled in 1903 at the South-East corner of Central Park. It was moved a little way to its present position in 1913.
