The Civil War Lover's Guide to New York City by Bill Morgan

Author:Bill Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN: 9781611211238
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2013-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

General George B. McClellan.

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Following the war, McClellan returned to the city to work as chief engineer for the city’s Department of Docks, then created his own firm of consulting engineers and accountants. He remained popular: more than a thousand guests attended his daughter May’s coming-out party on December 11, 1880. When he died in 1885, his funeral services were held nearby at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church. His son, George McClellan, Jr., went on to serve as mayor of New York from 1904–1909.

087. HORACE GREELEY MONUMENT

Greeley Square, East 32nd Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue

There are two larger-than-life bronze statues of Horace Greeley in the city. This one honoring the New York Tribune’s great editor is appropriately located here in Greeley Square. It was dedicated in 1894, two years after the statue downtown near City Hall. The fact that Greeley is the only journalist to be honored by two such memorials is a testament to his stature and influence during the nineteenth century. The Greeley Square statue was created by sculptor Alexander Doyle (1857–1922). Greeley was the first president of the Typographical Union, so the members of the Typographical Society commissioned this work in gratitude for his efforts on their behalf. Oddly enough, Doyle wanted his statue to be placed in City Hall Park—which is where J. Q. A. Ward’s sculpture of Greeley eventually ended up. Doyle’s work was placed in the square in front of James Gordon Bennett, Jr.’s, new Herald Building on Herald Square, at Broadway and 34th Street. In 1924, long after the deaths of both editors, the Tribune merged with the Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, which continued publication until 1966.

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