BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Yorktown Victory Monument (Colonial NHP)

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1. YORKVM_980209_01.JPG: Yorktown; National Cemetery
2. YORKVM_980209_02.JPG: Yorktown; Victory Monument
3. YORKVM_980209_03.JPG: Yorktown; Victory Monument
4. YORKVM_980209_04.JPG: Yorktown; Victory Monument
5. YORKVM_980209_05.JPG: Yorktown; Surrender Field; Cannon
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Description of Subject Matter: Yorktown Victory Monument

On October 24, 1781, Lt. Col. Tench Tilghman, Washington's aide-de-camp, reached Philadelphia and the Continental Congress with the "glorious" news of the surrender of Cornwallis' army at Yorktown, on October 19th. On Monday, October 29, Congress officially recognized this great victory and by resolution directed:

That the United States in Congress assembled, will cause to be erected at york, in Virginia, a marble column, adorned with emblems of the alliance between the United States and his Most Christian Majesty; and inscribed with a succinct narrative of the surrender of earl Cornwallis to his excellency General Washington, Commander in Chief of the combined forces of America and France; to his excellency the Count de Rochambeau, commanding the auxilliary troops of his most Christian Majesty in America, and his excellency the Count de Grasse, commanding in chief the naval army of France in the Chesapeake.

However, no action towards actually building this monument was taken for a century though the congressional resolution was not forgotten. In 1834 the citizens of Yorktown had asked Congress that the monument be erected as specified in 1781 since, as the Congressional committee report indicated, it would emphasize "an event that terminated the struggle of our fathers for liberty and independence" and that "no event in our history is more worthy of commemoration than that which crowned the American revolution with success and triumph." The resulting bill anticipated the purchase of grounds and "a railing" around them.

There was no follow up in 1834, however, nor in 1836 when the proposal was again active. When in 1876 a memorial from the Common Council of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was before Congress, the desirability of the project was recognized.

The Committee of Public Buildings and Grounds nonetheless, felt that it needed to be postponed "...considering the financial condition of the country, and the fact that Congres ...More...
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