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Winfield Scott, 1786-1866
Winfield Scott was about twenty-eight years old and at the beginning of a long and distinguished military career when he was portrayed by America's first native-born sculptor, William Rush. A hero after the Battle of Chippewa-one of the few land victories of the War of 1812-Scott posed in Philadelphia, where he was recuperating from wounds that he received through his reckless bravery at the Battle of Lundy's Lane. "Put him down a major general. I have done with objections to his youth," President James Monroe declared.
William Rush, c 1814 |