DC Heritage Trail · Downtown
Rise Up and Hear the Bell (Oh Captain! My Captain!)
Inspired by
Stop #2, Ceremony at the Crossroads
7th Street & Indiana Avenue NW
The sign recalls the Grand Review of the Union armies on May 23 and 24, 1865, when about 200,000 soldiers marched past this corner over two days. The poet Walt Whitman, who nursed wounded soldiers in Washington during the Civil War, described the parade, and the sign notes he might have watched it from this spot.
- Size
- 30"x59"
- Medium
- acrylic on recycled street banner
- Status
- Sold
- Series
- DC Heritage Trail · Downtown
Sold at the live auction of the 2014 Embassy Chef Challenge at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center →
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