page_title: The Minute Man
section_title: 1836 Battle monument
hierarchical_section_title: The Minute Man / Background / 1836 Battle monument
caption_attribution_description: English: Minute Man National Historical Park This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000935
context_page_description: The Minute Man is an 1874 sculpture by Daniel Chester French located in Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Massachusetts. It was created between 1871 and 1874 after extensive research, and originally intended to be made of stone. The medium was switched to bronze and it was cast from ten Civil War-era cannons appropriated by Congress.
  The statue depicts a minuteman stepping away from his plow to join the patriot forces at the Battle of Concord. The young man has an overcoat thrown over his plow, and has a long gun in his hand. Nineteenth-century art historians noticed that the pose resembles the pose of the Apollo Belvedere. Until the late twentieth century it was assumed that the pose was transposed from the earlier statue. Based on Daniel Chester French's journals, modern art historians have shown that the Apollo Belvedere was only one of several statues that were used in the research for The Minute Man.
  The statue was unveiled in 1875 for the centennial of the Battle of Concord. It received critical acclaim and continues to be praised by commentators.
context_section_description: In 1825, the Bunker Hill Monument Association donated $500 (equivalent to $11,299 in 2019) to Concord to build a monument to the Battle of Concord. The original plan was to place the monument "near the town pump" in Concord. Due to disagreements within the town, nothing was done with the money until Ezra Ripley donated land for the monument near the Old North Bridge in 1835. After the donation, the town had Solomon Willard design a simple 25-foot-tall (7.6-meter) granite obelisk to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Concord. The "Concord Hymn" was written by transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson for the dedication of the monument in 1836. At the ceremony, it was sung to the tune of "Old Hundred".
  To the dislike of Emerson, the obelisk stands on the bank of the river where the British stood during battle. The Minute Man was created for the centennial celebration of the battle in 1875. Unlike the earlier monument, it was to be placed on the bank where the Massachusetts militia stood.
caption: The 1836 obelisk with The Minute Man in the background on the other side of the Concord River
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