BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Sherman Memorial

DC -- Sherman Memorial:

Bruce Guthrie Photos Home Page: [Click here] to go to Bruce Guthrie Photos home page.

Recognize anyone? If you recognize specific folks (or other stuff) and I haven't labeled them, please identify them for the world. Click the little pencil icon

underneath the file name (just above the picture). Spammers need not apply.

Slide Show: Want to see the pictures as a slide show? [Slideshow]

Copyrights: All pictures were taken by amateur photographer Bruce Guthrie (me!) who retains copyright on them. Free for non-commercial use with attribution. See the [Creative Commons] definition of what this means. "Photos (c) Bruce Guthrie" is fine for attribution. (Commercial use folks including AI scrapers can of course contact me.) Feel free to use in publications and pages with attribution but you don't have permission to sell the photos themselves. A free copy of any printed publication using any photographs is requested. Descriptive text, if any, is from a mixture of sources, quite frequently from signs at the location or from official web sites; copyrights, if any, are retained by their original owners.

Help? The Medium (Email) links are for screen viewing and emailing. You'll want bigger sizes for printing. [Click here for additional help]

Share: Facebook Twitter Digg
[1] SHERM_020930_18.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[2] SHERM_021003_12.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[3] SHERM_021003_16.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[4] SHERM_021003_28.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

[5] SHERM_021021_01_STITCH.JPG

Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

[6] SHERM_021021_05.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[7] SHERM_021021_06.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[8] SHERM_021021_08.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[9] SHERM_021021_22.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[10] SHERM_021205_06.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[11] SHERM_021205_07.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[12] SHERM_021205_10.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)
[13] SHERM_021205_12.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[14] SHERM_021205_14.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[15] SHERM_021205_19.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[16] SHERM_021205_25.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[17] SHERM_021205_28.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)	[18] SHERM_021205_34.JPG Medium (Email) (Bigger?)

Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SHERM_020930_18.JPG: This is the place where General William Tecumseh Sherman reviewed his troops parading by after the Civil War ended. They built a fairly large monument to him, which shows the battles his troops fought in.
Multi Column: Number of columns of thumbnails to appear per page (normally defaults to 3): [1 col] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Description of Subject Matter: The Sherman memorial is located where William Tecumseh Sherman reviewed his troops returning from the Civil War in 1865. It's a large memorial with names of his army's military encounters, statues of men, and Sherman himself on a horse high above it all.

Sherman's father died suddenly when William was 9 years old. One of 11 children, they moved into the home of Thomas Ewing, a U.S. Senator and cabinet member. (William eventually married Ewing's daughter.) William obtained an appointment to West Point and graduated 6th in his class in 1840. He served in the Mexican War under Philip Kearny and was later assigned out in San Francisco. He resigned his commission in 1853, trying his hand in business.

After the attack on Fort Sumter, he rejoined the Army. Late in 1861, he was removed from his position after being accused of cracking up under pressure. He was assigned to Grant's army and fought vigorously at Shiloh. He helped Grant in the Vicksburg campaign and became a Corps commander. After Grant went east to take over the Federal armies in 1863, Sherman assumed command of all western troops. He launched the Atlanta campaign in 1864, the infamous March to the Sea in the same year, and eventually accepted Joseph Johnston's surrender in 1865.

The memorial was built in 1903. In 1976, a bronze eagle on the memorial was stolen. Surprisingly, they didn't have any decent photos of it, eventually recreating it based on a blurry 1905 portrait as well as the outline that was left on the memorial. Finally, in August 2005, a newly created eagle was put onto the monument. That's what caused me to take a bunch of pictures of the monument.
Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.) I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
Directly Related Pages: Other pages with content (DC -- Sherman Memorial) directly related to this one: [Display ALL photos on one page]:
- 2023_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (39 photos from 2023)
- 2022_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (10 photos from 2022)
- 2012_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (35 photos from 2012)
- 2009_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (4 photos from 2009)
- 2008_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (46 photos from 2008)
- 2007_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (8 photos from 2007)
- 2005_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (14 photos from 2005)
- 2003_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (2 photos from 2003)
- 2000_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (4 photos from 2000)
- 1999_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (26 photos from 1999)
- 1997_DC_Sherman: DC -- Sherman Memorial (7 photos from 1997)
Same Subject: Click on this link to see coverage of items having the same subject: [Memorials] [Nighttime] [Winter]
2002 photos: This was the year I started the photo web site. It started to come together in August 2002, mostly as a way of allowing me to keep track of the pictures I was taking. It took awhile to add some basic bells and whistles (logging didn't get added until November) but it's been pretty much like it started out since then. Archaic but working, and free! Trips this year: Two weeks out west, one week in New York, and one week down south. Image quality isn't going to be very good for the first half of this year because these are scans of prints. Equipment this year: I took the plunge and bought my first digital camera. It was August 2002 and I bought an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z. While a nice camera, it had some quirks and bumping it would result in it being totally out of focus until you manually shut it down -- something which blurred almost every picture I took in New York City one day.
Connection Not Secure messages? Those warnings you get from your browser about this site not having secure connections worry some people. This means this site does not have SSL installed (the link is http:, not https:). That's bad if you're entering credit card numbers, passwords, or other personal information. But this site doesn't collect any personal information so SSL is not necessary. Life's good!
Limiting Text: You can turn off all of this text by clicking this link: [Thumbnails Only]
Photo Contact: [Email Bruce Guthrie].