Battle Monument - West Point, New York
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BruceS
N 41° 23.682 W 073° 57.408
18T E 587209 N 4583099
Civil War monument located on Trophy Point at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Waymark Code: WM483P
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/20/2008
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Battle Monument
"Perhaps the most prominent and majestic monument at the Academy is the
Battle Monument. It was dedicated in 1897 "in memory of the officers and men of
the American Army who fell in battle," specifically the Regular Army casualties
of the North during the Civil War. Battle Monument was designed by an
architecture engineering firm that included Stanford White, one of the nation's
foremost architectural designers of the late 19th century. The shaft is
reportedly the largest polished granite shaft in the Western Hemisphere. Some
2,230 names are inscribed on it. The figure at the top, "Lady Fame" or
"Victory," was sculpted by Frederick MacMonnies, who also did the Nathan Hale
statue in City Hall Park in New York City." -
Tour of USMA website