Union Soldiers & Sailors Monument (Baltimore, MD)
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Location
W 29th Street & N Charles Street (Street View)
GPS: 39° 19′ 25.64″ N 76° 37′ 4.17″ W
History
This work, by Adolphe A. Weiman, was dedicated in 1909, and originally sat in Druid Hill Park (which may be what is depicted in this postcard). It was moved to its current location in 1959 to make way for an expressway. The monument depicts a Union soldier striding forward with the Goddess Victory to his right and the Goddess Bellona (War) to his left. Behind Bellona rises a fig tree. Reliefs on the south and north sides of the base, respectively, depict a naval battle and an land battle with infantry and cavalry.
Notes
Union Sailors & Soldiers has the distinction of being the only public Civil War monument in the city to pay homage to the Northern/Union sacrifices made during that conflict. Diagonally north-east across Wyman Park, on Art Museum Drive is the double-equestrian Jackson-Lee memorial. Not far from that is the Confederate Women monument to the north across Hopkins campus. And then you have the Spirit of the Confederacy right in Bolton Hill.
Nearby
Links
- On Panoramio and Flickr
- Smithsonian entry
- Wikipedia list of Soldiers & Sailors monuments in other cities