Lady Liberty’s Father
“Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbor; relieve the poor […]
Tag Archives: Civil War
Happy Birthday, Augustus Saint-Gaudens
“My own delay I excuse on the ground that a sculptor’s work endures for so long that it is next to a crime for him to neglect to do everything […]
Central Park’s Seventh Regiment Memorial
The Veteran Corps “commemorated the memory of their comrades who fell in the Civil War with appropriate exercises… The monument was almost hidden from sight by wreaths and flowers, as […]
A Different Drummer
“Please, dear mother, send me on another cake. The boys took it all from me. Your Clarry.” “Dear mother, do not cry for me, for I am well off, and […]
From Decoration Day to Memorial Day
“Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you” ―from ‘Drum Taps’ part of “Leaves […]
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