Gouverneur K. Warren, (sculpture).

Gouverneur K. Warren, (sculpture).

Baerer, Henry, 1837-1908, sculptor.

Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, founder.

Gouverneur K. Warren, (sculpture).

General G. K. Warren Monument, (sculpture).

Kemble Warren, (sculpture).

Installed 1896.

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Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite.

Sculpture: approx. 7 x 3 x s ft.; Base: approx. 15 x 10 x 10 ft.

(On back of sculpture:) Cast by Henry Baerer/Bronze (On front of base, upper portion:) WARREN (On front of base, middle portion:) MAJOR GENERAL/GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE WARREN/LIEUTENANT COLONEL/CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U.S.A./BORN AT COLD SPRING N.Y. JANUARY 8, 1830/DIED AT NEWPORT R.I. AUGUST 8, 1882/EVERYTHING WITH HIM WAS SUBORDINATED TO DUTY. (On front of base, lower portion:) GRADUATED AT WEST POINT, 1850. CORPS OF ENGINEERS/U.S. ARMY. CONDUCTED EXPLORATIONS WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, 1855-56;/ROSE BY MERIT FROM LIEUT. COLONEL, 5TH NEW YORK VOLS.,/TO MAJOR GENERAL, COMMANDING 5TH ARMY CORPS; ENGAGED IN 17 GREAT BATTLES, AND 20 MINOR ACTIONS; WAS TWICE/WOUNDED;SAVED LITTLE ROUND TOP AT GETTYSBURG, AND/MADE VICTORY AT FIVE FORTKS DECISIVE. OF HIS PROFES-/SIONAL SERVICES, 1865-82, THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS STATES/IN ORDERS; "IN SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS GENERAL/WARREN HAD FEW SUPERIORS, AND HIS ELABORATE REPORTS/ON SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORKS WHICH HAVE BEEN/CONFIDED TO THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS ARE AMONG THE MOST /VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ITS LITERATURE." (On right side of base, upper portion:) Presented to the City of Brooklyn/By CK Warren Post No. 286/Department of New York/Grand Army of the Republic/AD 1896 (On back of base:) This stone/is from Little Round Top/gettysburg signed

Warren is standing with proper left leg slightly extended. He wears the full field uniform and holds binoculars in his proper left hand. He wears a leather pouch across his chest. He stands on a square four-tiered base.

Portrait male -- Warren, Gouverneur Kemble -- Full length

Occupation -- Military -- General

Occupation -- Industry -- Engineering

Dress -- Accessory -- Eye wear

Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Brooklyn

Administered by City of New York, Department of Parks and Recreation, The Arsenal - Central Park, New York, New York 10021

Located Grand Army Plaza, Plaza Street West Brooklyn, New York

Monument committee: Warren Post, G.A.R., Brooklyn, NY.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985

National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, NY0229, 1989.

Lederer, Joseph, "All Around the Town: A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York City," New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.

Monumental News, June 1894, pg. 286.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York, New York survey, 1994.

Lederer, Joseph, "All Around the Town: A Walking Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in New York City," New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975, pg. 217.

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