The Philip Sheridan Statue in Chicago-- Part 3: About Those Horses Statue Legs

For both the Sheridan statues in Washington, D.C.,  and Chicago, General Sheridan was riding his war horse, Rienzi.  Sheridan had to ride his horse at a full gallop from the town of Winchester to the battlefield 12 miles away to rally his troops.  There he led his troops in a successful counter attack.

Usual sculptor rules for a statue with a rider on a horse goes like this:  If the horse has one leg raised, its rider was wounded.  If two legs are up, then the rider was killed.  All four legs on the ground, the man escaped unscathed.

But, Borglan's statue's horse has one leg raised and Sheridan emerged from this battle unscathed.  This is one of the few equestrian statues in Chicago that does not follow the usual practice.

--RoadDog