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Final resting places : reflections on the meaning of Civil War graves / edited by Brian Matthew Jordan [and nine others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- UnCivil Wars Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers' monuments--United States.
- Soldiers' monuments.
- War cemeteries--United States.
- War cemeteries.
- Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of--United States--History--19th century.
- Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Final Resting Places brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation-and how those meanings still influence Americans today. In each essay, a noted historian explores a different type of gravesite-including large marble temples, unmarked graves beneath the waves, makeshift markers on battlefields, mass graves on hillsides, neat rows of military headstones, university graveyards, tombs without bodies, and small family plots. Each burial place tells a unique story of how someone lived and died-and how they were mourned and remembered. Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of American history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1: Common Soldiers and Sailors
- Chapter 1: A Hollywood Grave
- Chapter 2: D. A. Rock : Gettysburg's First Headstone
- Chapter 3: Graves Forgotten and Found
- Chapter 4: A Life on His Own Terms: Albert D. J. Cashier, 95th Illinois Infantry
- Chapter 5: Encounters with the Monitor Boys
- Chapter 6: Twenty Men, Dead in the Stono
- Chapter 7: "Durable Stone": Veterans' Headstones and the Legacy of the Civil War
- Chapter 8: The Bones of Morris and Folly
- Chapter 9: Granite Remnants Left along the Delaware: The Shohola Railroad Calamity
- Chapter 10: "That Derogatory Rock": The Contested Memory of the 1862 Hanging of Thirty-Eight Dakota in Mankato, Minnesota
- Chapter 11: Confederate Tombs on Brazilian Soil: A Trip, a Cemetery, and a Nexus of Confusion
- Chapter 12: The University of Virginia Cemetery
- Chapter 13: "A Martyr in the Cause of Liberty": The Death and Burial of John Rodgers Meigs
- Part 2: Generals and Their Steeds
- Chapter 14: The Grave of Robert E. Lee,Lexington, Virginia
- Chapter 15: Ulysses S. Grant: A Monumental Undertaking
- Chapter 16: Gabriel and Nannie Wharton
- Chapter 17: "A Wonderful Tenacity of Life": Old Baldy, George Meade's Veteran Warhorse
- Chapter 18: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: "Hero of Little Round Top"
- Part 3: Civilians
- Chapter 19: "I Stood before His Silent Grave": John Albion Andrew, the Soul of a Champion
- Chapter 20: "For His Father's Sake": The Grave of Joseph Evan Davis
- Chapter 21: A Lost Child: James Hutchison Stanton
- Chapter 22: Not-So-Final Resting Places: Grave Reflections on the Historical Reputation of Elizabeth Keckly
- Chapter 23: Reflections on the Gravestone of William H. Johnson
- Chapter 24: The Slave Cemetery and Apology Marker at the University of Alabama.
- Chapter 25: "Let the Son of a Bitch Die": An Abandoned Graveyard Reveals a Sad Story of Murder
- Chapter 26: Civil War Gothic: The Gravestones of William Barclay Napton and Melinda Williams Napton
- Chapter 27: John Wilkes Booth's Death and Burials
- Chapter 28: Of Graves and the Color Line
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-6457-6
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