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Arguably the greatest of these funerary monuments is the bronze bas-relief that forms the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, 1884 – 1897, which Saint-Gaudens labored on for 14 years ; even after the public version had been unveiled, he continued with further versions.

Two grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals are outstanding: to General John A. Logan, atop a tumulus in Chicago, 1894 – 1897, and to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of Central Park in New York, 1892 – 1903, the first use of Robert Treat Paine's pointing device for the accurate mechanical enlargement of sculpture models.

The depictions of the African-American soldiers on the memorial is noted as a rare example of true-to-life, non-derogatory, depictions of Afro-ancestral physical characteristics in 19th Century American art.