 In 1969 , the memorial was dismantled and placed in a storage facility at 42nd Street and Hunt Place NE when the Capitol Reflecting Pool was built atop Interstate 395 's Third Street Tunnel . It remained in storage for several years and members of the public began inquiring why the memorial had not been replaced . Pennsylvania Representative William F. Goodling contacted the memorial coordinator for the National Capital Region of the National Park Service ( NPS ) while members of the Gettysburg Civil War Round Table ( GCWRT ) contacted Jeff Wolf to repair the sculpture , which had cracked in several places . The GCWRT also contacted Maryland Representative Marjorie Holt who had requested the memorial be placed in her congressional district at Fort George G. Meade . The memorial was repaired and in 1983 placed in a new plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue NW . A formal rededication took place on October 3 , 1984 . 
