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The golden age of battlefield preservation : the decade of the 1890s and the establishment of America's first five military parks / Timothy B. Smith ; with a foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Timothy B., 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National parks and reserves--Government policy.
- History.
- National parks and reserves.
- Military parks.
- Government policy.
- Battlefields--Conservation and restoration.
- Battlefields.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields.
- United States.
- Battlefields--Conservation and restoration--United States--History.
- Military parks--Government policy--United States--History.
- National parks and reserves--Government policy--United States--History.
- Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (Ga. and Tenn.).
- Antietam National Battlefield (Md.)--History.
- Antietam National Battlefield (Md.).
- Shiloh National Military Park (Tenn. and Miss.)--History.
- Shiloh National Military Park (Tenn. and Miss.).
- Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.)--History.
- Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.).
- Vicksburg National Military Park (Miss.)--History.
- Vicksburg National Military Park (Miss.).
- United States--Cultural policy.
- Cultural policy.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Context of Civil War Battlefield Preservation 1
- 1 Battlefields, Cemeteries, and Early Preservation: The Prelude to the 1890s-Era Parks, 1861-1890 11
- 2 Congress, the War Department, and the National Military Parks: The Context of the 1890s-Era Battlefield Preservation, 1890-1933 31
- 3 "A Western Gettysburg": Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, 1890-1933 51
- 4 "The Experiment at Antietam": Antietam National Battlefield, 1890-1933 87
- 5 "This Great Battlefield": Shiloh National Military Park, 1894-1933 115
- 6 "A Splendid Monument to American Valor": Gettysburg National Military Park, 1895-1933 145
- 7 "A Valuable Contribution to Military Science": Vicksburg National Military Park, 1899-1933 179
- 8 The Golden Age Reassessed 211
- Appendix 1 Enabling Legislation 223
- Appendix 2 Military Park Commissioners and Board Members 235.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781572336223
- 1572336226
- OCLC:
- 166273707
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