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Category : Monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument in West Roxbury, Mass
Author: Across the Bloody Chasm
Author: M. Keith HarrisPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807157732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Long after the Civil War ended, one conflict raged on: the battle to define and shape the war's legacy. Across the Bloody Chasm deftly examines Civil War veterans' commemorative efforts and the concomitant -- and sometimes conflicting -- movement for reconciliation. Though former soldiers from both sides of the war celebrated the history and values of the newly reunited America, a deep divide remained between people in the North and South as to how the country's past should be remembered and the nation's ideals honored. Union soldiers could not forget that their southern counterparts had taken up arms against them, while Confederates maintained that the principles of states' rights and freedom from tyranny aligned with the beliefs and intentions of the founding fathers. Confederate soldiers also challenged northern claims of a moral victory, insisting that slavery had not been the cause of the war, and ferociously resisting the imposition of postwar racial policies. M. Keith Har-ris argues that although veterans remained committed to reconciliation, the sectional sensibilities that influenced the memory of the war left the North and South far from a meaningful accord. Harris's masterful analysis of veteran memory assesses the ideological commitments of a generation of former soldiers, weaving their stories into the larger narrative of the process of national reunification. Through regimental histories, speeches at veterans' gatherings, monument dedications, and war narratives, Harris uncovers how veterans from both sides kept the deadliest war in American history alive in memory at a time when the nation seemed determined to move beyond conflict.
Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
Author: Thomas J. BrownPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, Thomas J. Brown explains, and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. As large cities and small towns across the North and South installed an astonishing range of statues, memorial halls, and other sculptural and architectural tributes to Civil War heroes, communities debated the relationship of military service to civilian life through fund-raising campaigns, artistic designs, oratory, and ceremonial practices. Brown shows that distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I. Brown provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments that remain potent presences on the civic landscape.
Massachusetts in the Army and Navy During the War of 1861-1865
Author: Thomas Wentworth HigginsonPublisher:
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Category : Digital images
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Massachusetts in the Army and Navy During the War of 1861-65
Author: Thomas Wentworth HigginsonPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Special collections
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Catalogue of Library of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Page Nicholson...
Author: John Page NicholsonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Fiftieth Anniversary Catalog of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the American Civil War and Slavery
Author: Morrison, Noah Farnham, firm, booksellers, Elizabeth, N.J.Publisher:
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
War Department, Office of the Chief of Staff, War College Division, General Staff
Author: Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
Book Description