High white marble memorial was erected from 1877 to 1878 in commemoration of the naval deaths at sea during the American Civil War
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The Peace Monument (Naval Monument or Civil War Sailors Monument) stands in Peace Circle at the Capitol grounds, a 44-foot white marble memorial erected in 1877-1878 to honor Navy deaths at sea in the Civil War, sculpted by Franklin Simmons and conceived by Admiral David Dixon Porter. At the top, Grief hides her face against History, who holds a tablet reading "They died that their country might live," with Victory, the infants Mars and Neptune, and Peace below. It is part of a sculptural group with the Garfield Monument and Grant Memorial.
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