The Statues of Gettysburg National Military Park

Going through the parade of monuments to regiments and battalions, you can see the variety of styles artists used to commemorate the dead.  With Neo-Classical, Classical, and some contemporary designs, the park peppers the field with a Post-Modern atmosphere of remembrance.  The Neo-Classical monuments uses abstracts that take on the form of women draped in togas who either look ahead stoically or look down on fallen soldiers in mourning.

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