The Peace Monument, also called the Navy Monument, stands in Peace Circle at First Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, on the western edge of the Capitol complex in Washington, D.C. It honors Union Navy men who served in the Civil War. Admiral David Dixon Porter initiated it, and sculptor Franklin Simmons carved it. It was built in 1878.
It is 44 feet (13 meters) tall with a base 10 feet (3 meters) on a side. The article names Carrara marble. Edward Clark, Architect of the Capitol, designed the base, and Congress gave $20,000 for it. Porter raised $9,000 from naval personnel and private citizens.
America weeps on the shoulder of History at the top. A tablet reads They died that their country might live. No formal dedication was held, and the Architect of the Capitol took it over in 1973.
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