Iowa State Capitol

His Majesty, the King Admiral Pope of the Universe Baron William von Gross, this wacky and brilliant friend of mine, was at the Iowa State Capitol building recently and took these pictures of a bizarre and seemingly inappropriate (or at least confusing) sculpture. He sent them to me in an email with the following text:

I'd stopped by the Iowa State Capitol building in Des Moines yesterday because it's a pretty cool building and I like that sort of stuff...anyway, just on the south side of the current capital is an immense monument for "the soldiers and sailors of the war of the rebellion" put up at beginning of the 1900s at the site of the old state building. At it's base is the gem attached in photos, yes that's a plow our sweet sister Miss Iowa is straddling. Slavery, schmlavery, THAT's what the boys were fighting for.