Statue of General Charles Devens, 1902-1906 (1905), by Daniel Chester French in collaboration with Edward Clark Potter

Location: in front of County Courthouse, overlooking Lincoln Square, Main and Highland Sts., Worcester

Description: Charles Devens (1820-1891) typified "the citizen soldier and the soldier gentleman." He was born in Charlestown and settled in Worcester. A Harvard graduate, lawyer, volunteer general in the Army of the Potomac, Military Governor of Richmond (its first), and of Charleston, he was a judge after the war until his death, except when attorney general in President Hayes' Cabinet. His law partner, George Frisbie Hoar (see his statue by Daniel Chester French), wrote in his memoir on Devens that a portrait of him would require "the noble touch of the old master of painting or the lofty stroke of the [Elizabethan] dramatists." Senator Hoar was the chairman of the Commission that chose French.

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