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1 online resource (375 p.) |
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UnCivil Wars Series |
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UnCivil Wars Series
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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List of Contributors -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Soldiers' monuments -- United States
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War cemeteries -- United States
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Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Battle casualties
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Monuments
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Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of
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Soldiers' monuments
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War cemeteries
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Monuments.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009001872
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005373
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
White, Jonathan W
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Blight, David W
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Ayers, Edward L
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Davis, William
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Egerton, Douglas R
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Gannon, Barbara
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Green, Hilary
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Holloway, Anna Gibson
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Janney, Caroline E
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| ISBN |
0820364576 |
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9780820364575 |
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