Virginia Monument (Gettysburg)

Description

The Virginia Monument is a Battle of Gettysburg memorial to the commonwealth’s “Sons at Gettysburg” (Battlefield) with a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on his horse Traveller and a “bronze group of figures representing the Artillery, Infantry, and Cavalry of the Confederate Army”. The equestrian statue is atop a granite pedestal and the group of six standing figures is on a sculptured bronze base with the figures facing the Field of Pickett’s Charge and the equestrian statue of Union General George G. Meade on Cemetery Ridge.