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“The First of Our Hundred Battle Monuments”: Civil War Battlefield Monuments Built by Active-Duty Soldiers During the Civil War

“The First of Our Hundred Battle Monuments”: Civil War Battlefield Monuments Built by Active-Duty... Photo Essay .................... "The First of Our Hundred Battle Monuments" Civil War Battlefield Monuments Built by Active-Duty Soldiers During the Civil War by Michael W. Panhorst Hazen Brigade Monument, Stones River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, built 1863­64. All photographs are by the author unless otherwise noted. First Manassas Monument with its construction detail, Fifth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, which was then armed as infantry. Photo probably made at dedication on June 11, 1865. Library of Congress photo courtesy Manassas National Battlefield. The New York Times was wrong in more than one respect when it heralded the dedication of two monuments to Union fatalities at First and Second Manassas with its June 13, 1865 headline, "The First of Our Hundred Battle Monuments." Those two memorials (see pp. 37­39) were predated by at least four, and possibly five or six, memorials that were erected on Civil War battlefields by active-duty soldiers during the war to mark where their comrades fought and where some were buried. These wartime memorials represent the earliest efforts to commemorate Civil War combat and combatants and the earliest attempts to mark Civil War battlefields for posterity. Their history illuminates the sentiments of soldiers who memorialized their very http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

“The First of Our Hundred Battle Monuments”: Civil War Battlefield Monuments Built by Active-Duty Soldiers During the Civil War

Southern Cultures , Volume 20 (4) – Nov 12, 2014

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Photo Essay .................... "The First of Our Hundred Battle Monuments" Civil War Battlefield Monuments Built by Active-Duty Soldiers During the Civil War by Michael W. Panhorst Hazen Brigade Monument, Stones River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, built 1863­64. All photographs are by the author unless otherwise noted. First Manassas Monument with its construction detail, Fifth Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, which was then armed as infantry. Photo probably made at dedication on June 11, 1865. Library of Congress photo courtesy Manassas National Battlefield. The New York Times was wrong in more than one respect when it heralded the dedication of two monuments to Union fatalities at First and Second Manassas with its June 13, 1865 headline, "The First of Our Hundred Battle Monuments." Those two memorials (see pp. 37­39) were predated by at least four, and possibly five or six, memorials that were erected on Civil War battlefields by active-duty soldiers during the war to mark where their comrades fought and where some were buried. These wartime memorials represent the earliest efforts to commemorate Civil War combat and combatants and the earliest attempts to mark Civil War battlefields for posterity. Their history illuminates the sentiments of soldiers who memorialized their very

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Nov 12, 2014

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