The Big Day: Henrietta Meade, the general’s daughter, admires the first public view of her father’s statue after opening its concealing curtains on October 19, 1927. The statue to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (opposite) had been revealed to even more hoopla on April 27, 1922. The statues are about a six-minute walk apart from each other just west of the U.S. Capitol. (Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress)