Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National CemeteryPublisher:
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Category : Consecration of cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Revised Report Made to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National CemeteryPublisher:
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Category : Consecration of cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
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.
Dixie's Daughters
Author: Karen L. CoxPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813063892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for "truthfulness," and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I. This remarkable history of the organization presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development.
Memoranda During the War
Author: Walt WhitmanPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557091323
Category : Poets, American
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.
Masonic Standard
Author: History of the Twenty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the War for the Preservation of the Union, 1861-1865
Author: Charles Folsom WalcottPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Author: John Albert SleicherPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
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Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description