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Ulysses S. Grant MemorialThe Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring American Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. It is located at the base of Capitol Hill (Union Square, the Mall, 1st Street, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Maryland Avenue), below the west front of the United States Capitol. The monument's statue faces west toward the Lincoln Memorial honoring Grant's wartime president, Abraham Lincoln. Equidistant between the Grant and Lincoln memorials, which define the east and west boundaries of the National Mall, is the Washington Monument. The Grant Memorial includes the largest equestrian statue in the United States and the second largest in the world, after the monument to Italy's King Victor Emanuel in Rome. James M. Goode in his authoritative The Grant Memorial in Washington D.C. says it "...constitutes one of the most important sculptures in Washington.[1]". The Society of the Army of the Tennessee began the effort in the 1890's which culminated in the memorial's dedication decades later.
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