The E. M. Viquesney Doughboy Database
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      • *Vestal, New York
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      • *Blue Ash (Cincinnati), Ohio
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        • *Hiawatha, Utah
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  • Other Works by E. M. Viquesney
    • 1904: The Early Years
    • 1905-1915: Civil War Memorials
    • 1916: Booklet Illustrations
    • 1920: Burial Vault Patent
    • 1921: The Rylander Theatre
    • 1922: The "Imp-O-Luck"
    • 1922: The United States Infantry Association Trophy
    • 1923: The Klan-Lite
    • 1923 (est.) - "GOB" - "The Spirit of the American Sailor"
    • 1925: The Viquesney Block
    • 1926: "The Spirit of the American Navy"
    • 1927: "The Spirit of the Skies"
    • 1928: The Tivoli Theatre
    • 1928: Plaque at Malvern, Pennsylvania
    • 1929: "Mother" (Madonna and Child)
    • 1930: "Zero Hour"
    • 1930: Flanders Cross Memorial
    • 1930s (est.) - Joan of Arc
    • 1930s (est): Service Plaque
    • 1931: Knute Rockne Bust
    • 1933-1934: "The Unveiling"
    • 1935: Viquesney's Version of "Over the Top"
    • 1935 (est.): Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy
    • 1936: "Resting Doughboy"
    • 1936 (est.): Alf Landon Bust
    • 1936, 1937: "The Spirit of America" / "The Spirit of the Flag",
    • 1938: "Lincoln as an Indiana Boy" >
      • Guido Rebechini's Lincoln Lookalike
    • 1939: Soldiers Memorial Pavilion
    • 1940: "Creation"
    • 1942: "The Yanks Again", "Eagle's Watch", and "Remember Pearl Harbor"
    • 1943: "The Spirit of the Fighting Yank" >
      • Chicago, Illinois
      • Bloomington, Indiana
      • Port Huron, Michigan
      • Belmont, North Carolina
      • Oil City, Pennsylvania
    • 1946: "Comrades", Viquesney's Last Piece
    • Career-long Output: Plaques, Grave Markers
  • "And So the Scene Closes"
  • Carrying On: Frederic L. Hollis
  • E. M. Viquesney vs. John Paulding
    • Paulding's Model 2043-A
    • Paulding's Model 2043-B
    • Paulding's Model 2043-C
    • Paulding's Model 2043-D
  • Viquesney Doughboy Lookalikes and Derivatives
    • Greenville, Alabama (Engraved Panel)
    • Montgomery, Alabama
    • Tampa, Florida
    • New Orleans, Louisiana
    • Union City (West Hoboken), New Jersey
    • Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
    • Franklin, Pennsylvania
    • Arcadia, Wisconsin
    • The McNeel Marble Co. Doughboys >
      • Eufaula, Alabama
      • Headland, Alabama
      • Troy, North Carolina
      • Clarksville, Tennessee
      • Texarkana, Texas
    • Eagle Bronze Works, Fiske Iron Works Doughboys
    • Walter A. Sinz Doughboys
    • Other Viquesney-Inspired Lookalikes
  • Viquesney Doughboy Myths
  • Viquesney Document Archive
  • Epilogue

1905 -1915: CIVIL WAR MEMORIALS

Although a great admirer of the Southern Confederacy, Viquesney thought there should be reconciliation between the former "Blue and Gray" opponents, and designed monuments to both.
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Evening Times, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 2/28/1914.
E. M. Viquesney moved to Americus, Georgia in 1905 to work on the Civil War Union state memorials at Andersonville National Cemetery, and Confederate memorials elsewhere. He was employed at both C. J. Clark's Monumental Works and Schneider Marble for that purpose, and may also have been affiliated with the products of McNeel Marble of Marietta.

Two of the Civil War memorials which Viquesney is known to have designed during this period are the Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1911-1913) at Wichita, Kansas (below), and The Blue and the Gray Monument (1914), designed by Viquesney for the town of Fitzgerald, Georgia (above), but due to funding problems, never built. It is thought by many that the "funding problems" were largely due to Fitzgerald residents' objection to a Union memorial in their town, even if it did also commemorate the Confederate side.

He also designed two monuments to the women of the Confederacy at Macon and Rome, Georgia, and also created a miniature version.

At this stage of his career, Viquesney was the designer, but not the sculptor of the figures on these monuments.
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Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Sedgwick County Courthouse, Wichita, Kansas. Photo: Wikipedia.
Above: Long before Viquesney became known for his "Spirit of the American Doughboy", he was already an accomplished sculptor, having designed many Civil War memorials and monuments.  One of these is the vault structure that stands in front of Sedgwick County Courthouse, Wichita, Kansas.  Plans began in 1911, and the monument was dedicated June 14, 1913.  The design and plans for the monument were drawn by Viquesney.  The contract for the monument was awarded to Woodbury Granite Company of Hardwick, Vermont.  The four lower statues, representing Union soldiers and sailors, were designed and cast by Frederick C. Hibbard of Chicago, Illinois, and the large statue on top, representing Peace, was provided  by W. H. Mullins of Salem, Ohio.  The foundation was built under separate contract by J. W. Burton.

Originally the vault housed a small military museum display behind the front doors, but problems with dampness forced Grand Army of the Republic officials to move the collection of paper records and relics to the new Carnegie Library in 1915.

The monument was included on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 (the Register application form erroneously lists the architect's name as Ernest "Monroe" Viquesney instead of his correct middle name, Moore).

Below: Monuments to the women of the Confederacy at Macon and Rome, Georgia, designed by E. M. Viquesney. Although designed by him, the figures were carved by other artists. 
 In 2020, there were plans to move the Macon memorial, already euphemized to "Women of the South".
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Women of the Confederacy, Rome, Georgia, 1910. Photo: Wikipedia.
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Women of the Confederacy. Macon, Georgia, 1911. Photo: Wikipedia.
Around 1935, Viquesney created a miniature based on one of the figure groups.
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