- CountryUS
- Town:Washington D.C.
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Year of creation:1874
- Rider(s):Scott, Winfield
(1786–1866), known as the ‘Grand Old Man of the Army’, served on active duty as a general longer than any other person in American history. Over the course of his 47-year career, he commanded forces in several wars. Among these was the Mexican-American War, an armed conflict from 1846 to 1848 between the US and the United Mexican States that resulted in the loss of Alta California, New Mexico and Texas by the Mexicans.
During this war, Scott performed the first major amphibious landing in US history. Included in his force were Robert Lee, James Longstreet and Thomas Jackson – who would be his adversaries in the Civil War – but also George Meade and Ulysses Grant. He briefly served as a general-in-chief in the Civil War. - Sculptor(s):Brown, Henry Kirke
(1814–1886) and his nephew Henry Kirke Bush-Brown (1857–1935), were the sculptors of seven equestrian statues in the US. Brown was one of the first in America to cast his own bronzes.
Scott preferred to ride mares, so the sculptor of his statue in Washington depicted Scott on a mare. However, the surviving family thought this unseemly, so the sculptor added the male horse’s parts without removing the female’s.
