Frederick Moynihan

Frederick J. Moynihan was an American sculptor, born on the Isle of Guernsey in 1843. He died in his New York City studio on January 9, 1910.^[1]

Moynihan studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in London before immigrating to the United States. He is best remembered for creating monuments commemorating the American Civil War.

Public monuments[edit]

• HMS Eurydice, Shanklin Cemetery, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 1880
• Pennsylvania's Ninth "Lochiel" Veteran Cavalry Monument, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 1894
• Company F, 1st US (Vermont) Sharpshooters Monument - Gettysburg, PA 1889
• Vermont Sharpshooters, Companies E & H 2nd Regiment United States Sharpshooters - Gettysburg, PA 1889
• 13th Vermont Infantry Monument Lieutenant Stephen F. Brown- Gettysburg, PA 1899
• Georgia State Monument. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 1899
• Griffin Alexander Stedman Monument, Barry Square, Hartford, Connecticut, 1900
• General Gustavus Sniper, equestrian, Syracuse, New York, 1905
• J.E.B. Stuart, equestrian, Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, 1907

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