Yes, that is a pigeon on his head. According to the New York City Park's website at - https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/grand-army-plaza-m062/monuments/1442 - "This majestic, gilded-bronze equestrian group statue depicts one of the United States’ best-known generals, William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 – 1891). Dedicated in 1903, it was master sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s (1848 – 1907) last major work, and serves as the centerpiece of Manhattan’s Grand Army Plaza." (NYC Parks, 2017)
I remember studying him when I was in high school. I guess I remember the lessons better than most of the old history lessons, because his march would have literally taken him through the backyard of one of the houses I used to live in.
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