Bibliograph

Final resting places, reflections on the meaning of Civil War graves, edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White ; foreword by David W. Blight

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Label

Final resting places, reflections on the meaning of Civil War graves, edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White ; foreword by David W. Blight

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Final resting places

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1378933693

Responsibility statement

edited by Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White ; foreword by David W. Blight

Series statement

UnCivil wars

Sub title

reflections on the meaning of Civil War graves

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

Table Of Contents

Foreword / David W. Blight -- Introduction / Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White -- A Hollywood grave / Glenn W. LaFantasie -- D. A. Rock : Gettysburg's first headstone / Timothy J. Orr -- Graves forgotten and found / Edward L. Ayers -- A Life on his own terms : Albert D.J. Cashier, 95th Illinois Infantry / DeAnne Blanton -- Encounters with the Monitor Boys / Anna Gibson Holloway -- Twenty men, dead in the Stono / Michael Vorenberg -- "Durable stone" : veterans' headstones and the legacy of the Civil War / Barbara A. Gannon -- The bones of Morris and Folly / Douglas R. Egerton -- Granite remnants left along the Delaware: the Shohola railroad calamity / Michael P. Gray -- "That derogatory rock" : The contested memory of the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota in Mankato, Minnesota / Melodie Andrews -- Confederate tombs on Brazilian soil : a trip, a cemetery, and a nexus of confusion / Vitor Izecksohn -- The University of Virginia cemetery / Caroline E. Janney -- "A martyr in the cause of liberty" : the death and burial of John Rodgers Meigs / Barton A. Myers -- The grave of Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Virginia / Allen C. Guelzo -- Ulysses S. Grant : a monumental undertaking / Katherine Reynolds Chaddock -- Gabriel Colvin Wharton / William C. Davis -- "A wonderful tenacity of life": Old Baldy, George Meade's veteran warhorse / Jennifer M. Murray -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : "hero of Little Round Top" / Ronald C. White -- "I stood before his silent grave" : John Albion Andrew, the soul of a champion / Stephen D. Engle -- "For his father's sake" : the grave of Joseph Evan Davis / John M. Coski -- A lost child: James Hutchison Stanton / Walter Stahr -- Not-so-final resting places : grave reflections on the historical reputation of Elizabeth Keckly / Michelle A. Krowl -- Reflections on the gravestone of William H. Johnson / Michael Burlingame -- The slave cemetery and apology marker at the University of Alabama / Hilary Green -- "Let the son of a bitch die" : an abandoned graveyard reveals a sad story of murder / Dana B. Shoaf -- Civil War gothic : the gravestones of William Barclay Napton and Melinda Williams Napton / Christopher Phillips -- John Wilkes Booth's death and burials / Terry Alford -- Of graves and the color line / Mark S. Schantz

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