The Picket

The Picket (1905) is an equestrian sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin in Hanover, Pennsylvania.

The total height of both the sculpture and the pedestal is twenty feet or about six meters.

[1] The sculpture was erected on September 28, 1905,[2] having been paid for by the state of Pennsylvania.

[3] The sculpture commemorates the Battle of Hanover, which took place on June 30, 1863.

[4] The Picket does not represent a particular participant in the Battle of Hanover; instead, it commemorates all of the unnamed cavalrymen whose names have been lost to history.