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  • Nuns of the Battlefield
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  • Nuns of the Battlefield is a public artwork by Irish artist Jerome Connor, located at the intersection of Rhode Island Ave NW, M St & Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, D.C., United States. A tribute to the more than 600 nuns who nursed soldiers of both armies during the American Civil War, it is one of two monuments in the District that mark women's roles in the conflict and is a contributing monument to the Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1993, it was surveyed for the Smithsonian Institution's Save Outdoor Sculpture! program.
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painting alignment
  • Front
width metric
  • 274.320000
Type
  • Bronze
height metric
  • 182.880000
Title
  • Nuns of the Battlefield
Image size
  • 300
City
Image File
  • Order of Sisters Memorial.JPG
Artist
  • Jerome Connor
Owner
  • National Park Service
abstract
  • Nuns of the Battlefield is a public artwork by Irish artist Jerome Connor, located at the intersection of Rhode Island Ave NW, M St & Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, D.C., United States. A tribute to the more than 600 nuns who nursed soldiers of both armies during the American Civil War, it is one of two monuments in the District that mark women's roles in the conflict and is a contributing monument to the Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C., on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1993, it was surveyed for the Smithsonian Institution's Save Outdoor Sculpture! program.