The Lost Armistead Monument
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According to the Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 by Benson Lossing, published in 1869, there was a Colonel George Armistead monument in what was known as City Spring, a once popular park near the present site of the Battle Monument. Apparently the author couldn’t locate the monument, and found the building’s edifice, where it once stood, in disrepair. The top of the sculpture distinctly resembles the Armistead Memorial at Federal Hill.
