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In some circles, the Confederate dead get short shrift these days, when they get remembered at all. It was not always thus. Once upon a time, the South's fallen were the subjects of reverent annual parades, lachrymose addresses and moving poetry, towering obelisks in every town square. Ten southern states recognize four different springtime dates as Confederate Memorial Day, though the states' rights tradition seems to have prevented them from uniting on the same one. Like a lot of ceremonial language, much of the memorial rhetoric composed for these occasions has had a short shelf life, but not all of it. Delivered in 1867, Henry Timrod's "Ode" to the Confederate dead set a high standard for commemorative poetry in the immediate aftermath of war. The author wrote when the graves in above: "Bill" (above) and "Nick" (left) posed long enough for Brian Jolley to snap them with an old Polaroid Land camera. Jolley traversed six southern states to photograph small-town merchants for "Keepers of the Southern Byways." Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery were still fresh, and the steadfast bronzes and granite shafts were still a future hope. " Though yet no marble column craves / The pilgrim here to pause,"
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jun 1, 2005
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