Civil War Monuments and Memory

Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War

Jon Tracey, Chris Mackowski, Jon Tracey, Chris Mackowski

• Publisher: Savas Beatie
• Year: 2022
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781611216349
• Subtopic: Architecture General
• Index: History

The American Civil War left indelible marks on the country. In the century and a half since the war, Americans have remembered the war in different ways. Veterans placed monuments to commemorate their deeds on the battlefield. In doing so, they often set in stone and bronze specific images in specific places that may have conflicted with the factual historical record. Erecting monuments and memorials became a way to commemorate the past, but they also became important tools for remembering that past in particular ways. Monuments honor, but they also embody the very real tension between history and the way we remember that history—what we now today call "memory." Civil War Monuments and Memory: Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians at Emerging Civil War explores some of the ways people monumented and memorialized the war—and how those markers have impacted our understanding of it. This collection of essays brings together the best scholarship from Emerging Civil War's blog, symposia, and podcast—all of it revised and updated—coupled with original pieces, designed to shed new light and insight on the monuments and memorials that give us some of our most iconic and powerful connections to the battlefields and the men who fought there.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editors’ Note
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword: Michael Kraus
• Photographing Monuments: Chris Heisey
• “Fame” at Shiloh: Chris Mackowski
• What is a Monument?: Kristopher D. White
• The Birth of the Battlefield Preservation Movement: Mary Koik
• “The Day Long Remembered”: Remembering Bull Run: Anthony Trusso
• “Field of Heaviest Losses” at Cold Harbor: Phillip S. Greenwalt
• “Cause” for Confusion: Monumental Intent at Gettysburg: Dan Welch
• The Contested Origins of Gettysburg’s Virginia Monument: Jonathan Tracey
• Albert Sidney Johnston Stumped at Shiloh: Chris Mackowski
• Confederate Monuments, Southern Memory: Stephen Davis
• A Reminder of Compromise and Controversy: Jon-Erik Gilot
• Moving Memory: Virginia Military Institute’s Stonewall Jackson Statue: Sarah Kay Bierle
• Confederate Monuments in Massachusetts: Who Knew?: Rob Wilson
• “Not to Prolong the Animosities Engendered by the War”: The Story Behind the Alexandria Statue, “Appomattox”: Mark Maloy
• Emancipation Memorial, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.: Steward T. Henderson
• When a Monument Gets Its History Wrong: Chris Mackowski
• Hideous Forrest: Meg Groeling
• History, Heritage, and Hate: The Fate of Confederate Monuments in My Ancestral Home: David T. Dixon
• History vs. Memory: Statues of Stonewall Offer a Lesson: Chris Mackowski
• A Grave Dilemma: What to Do with A.P. Hill?: Frank Jastrzembski
• Honoring General Milton S. Littlefield: The Right Thing to Do?: Frank Jastrzembski
• Paying My Respects to a “Bad, Old” Opponent: Chris Mackowski
• “A Reservoir of Misinformation”: Early Signs of the Lost Cause at Fort Gregg: Edward Alexander
• One Company Against Two Corps: Stephen Davis
• Civil War Myth Busting: The Fictional Confederate Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg: Ryan T. Quint
• A Bridge for Whiskey: The 51st Pennsylvania and Its Famous Request Examined: Kevin Pawlak
• Ellis Spear 1913 Does Not Jive with Ellis Spear 1863: Brian Swartz
• “So Full of Gross Error that I am Surprised at its Publication”: Disputed Memories at Gettysburg: Jonathan Tracey
• Granger’s Juneteenth Orders and the Limiting of Freedom: Edward Alexander
• Impartial Account of War and Memory: The Public and Private Recollections of Confederate General Edward Porter Alexander: Abbi Smithmyer
• The Most Overlooked Phase of the Overland Campaign: Chris Mackowski
• Memorial to the California Column: Philip S. Greenwalt
• Vanishing Monuments: The Case of Custer City, Colorado: Cecily Nelson Zander
• Sugar Kettle Art: Accidental Monuments: Sheritta Bitikofer
• The “Immortal” General Sherman: David T. Dixon
• Grand Old Men: The Last Veterans and Civil War Memory in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Brian Matthew Jordan
• Being Grant: Now and Then: Curt Fields
• Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis, and the Construction of a Monument: Chris Mackowski
• Contributors’ Notes
• Postscript: “The Ballad of Black Bess”: Stephen Davis