The Tribune described the work (in progress) as “beyond all question the most thrilling, heroically dramatic episode in Gen. Logan’s dashing career as a soldier and a leader of men. It is just at the moment of Gen. McPherson’s death, when the disheartened, defeated troops turned in retreat before the Siege of Atlanta. Inflamed with the hero’s courage that overrides all obstacles, Gen. Logan, with that impulsive personality that shows indefinable majestic power, which infused itself through the rank and file of the retreating soldiers, has seized the battle flag. With the work of unconquerable triumph he has flung it out to the breeze with his strong right arm as cheering his men he dashes on his magnificent coal black charger to Atlanta—and victory. His head is bared, his hair tossed back, the silken folds of the heavy flag seem almost to rustle into actual sound and the snorting of the responsive steed to echo in your ears as you look upon the statue.”
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