Author: BeveridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Illinois Monuments at Gettysburg
Author: BeveridgeIllinois Monuments at Gettysburg
Author: John L BeveridgePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337747633
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Illinois Monuments at Gettysburg
Author: John L. BeveridgePublisher:
ISBN: 9781331316633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Excerpt from Illinois Monuments at Gettysburg: 1891 To each regiment was assigned one face of the monument for regimental inscriptions, and the fourth and front face was reserved for general inscriptions. Each member of the commission was authorized to invite designs to be presented by December 1, 1889. At a meeting of the commissioners December 14, 1889, several designs were presented. After inspection of the same and consideration of their merits, the commissioners decided to defer further action until they had visited the battle-field at Gettysburg. This visit was made in June, 1890. The object of the visit was to acquaint themselves with the purposes and plans of the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association and the character of the monumental architecture of the battle-field, and to select a site for the Illinois monument. In riding over the battle-field, the commissioners found that all the loyal states, except West Virginia, and Illinois, had erected monuments in honor of their troops. These monuments number now over three hundred (300). Most of them are plain in character, marking the spot where the regiment stood in line of battle. The plan of the Memorial Association is to commemorate victory and to honor the victors, living and dead, and by the monuments, their location and inscriptions, to trace the lines of battle and render the field historic. The preamble of the act assumes that the 8th Illinois cavalry opened the engagement, and the act contemplates the erection of one monument to mark the spot where the battle was opened. It was impossible to follow strictly the act of the legislature and conform to the rules of the Memorial Association and the facts of history. The question arose, "Where was the battle opened? On the picket line or on the battle line?" If on the picket line, and the monument was erected on this line, it would be two miles beyond the lands of the Memorial Association: if on the battle line, the 8th and 12th Illinois cavalry occupied the same line and both had part in opening the engagement. The commissioners therefore, at a meeting held June 3, 1890, at Gettysburg, considering it would be more in accordance with the plans of the Memorial Association and the historical facts, and believing it would be more satisfactory to the survivors of the three regiments and to the people of the State of Illinois, resolved to erect three monuments, one for each regiment, to mark the spot where it stood in the line of battle on the morning of July 1, 1863. This action of the commissioners has been fully approved by all the survivors of the three regiments and Illinoisans who have visited the battle-field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
What Though the Field Be Lost
Author: Christopher KempfPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807175110
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Based on two years living and researching in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, What Though the Field Be Lost uses the battlefield there as a way to engage ongoing issues involving race, regional identity, and the ethics of memory. With empathy and humility, Kempf reveals the overlapping planes of historical past and public present, integrating archival material—language from monuments, soldiers' letters, eyewitness accounts of the battle—with reflection on present-day social and political unrest. Here monument protests, police shootings, and heated battle reenactments expose the ambivalences and evasions involved in the consolidation of national (and nationalist) identity. In What Though the Field Be Lost, Kempf shows that, though the Civil War may be over, the field at Gettysburg and all that it stands for remain sharply contested. Shuttling between past and present, the personal and the public, What Though the Field Be Lost examines the many pasts that inhere, now and forever, in the places we occupy.
Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg
Author: Jarrad FuossPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146710485X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"In early June 1863, the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia launched a summer campaign that brought horrific war to the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania ... On November 19, 1863, the dedication of a new Soldiers National Cemetery marked a critical point in American history. From its conception, the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg embodied a fitting tribute to those who gave their last full measure of devotion to a grateful nation. Since that fateful summer of 1863, the cemetery has expanded into a place of memoralization for Americans spanning generations ..."--Back cover
Maine at Gettysburg
Author: Maine. Gettysburg CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
"It will be found to contain principally an account of the monuments erected by the State of Maine on the Gettysburg Battlefield ... ; a full description of each monument, accompanied with half-tone pictures; the exercises attending their dedication; a statement of the part taken by each of the fifteen regiments, battalions, batteries, or other commands of Maine troops, illustrated with maps and diagrams; a list of participants in each command, with casualties in the same; a list of Maine generals, and staff and other officers additional to Maine organizations; a historical sketch of each command; and a brief summary of the work of the committee"--Preface.
Cushing of Gettysburg
Author: Kent Masterson BrownPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813146054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
First Lieutenant Cushing was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by the pPresident of the United States on November 6, 2014, 151 years after his death at the Angle at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, where he commanded Battery A, Fourth United States Artillery. He is likely the last Civil War soldier to who will be so honored. Although many individuals were involved in the effort to give the Medal of Honor to Cushing, this book, first published in 1993, played a critical role.
Sacred Ground
Author: Edward Tabor LinenthalPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252061714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Examines how different groups of Americans have competed to control, define, and own cherished national stories relating to events at four battlefields."--Amazon.com.
Illinois Monuments at Gettysburg
Author: John L. BeveridgePublisher:
ISBN: 9781375800037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Gettysburg Address
Author: Abraham LincolnPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”