
Final Resting Places
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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; how they were mourned and remembered. Together, they help us reckon with the most tragic period of American history.
CONTRUBUTORS: Terry Alford, Melodie Andrews, Edward L. Ayers, DeAnne Blanton, Michael Burlingame, Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, John M. Coski, William C. Davis, Douglas R. Egerton, Stephen D. Engle, Barbara Gannon, Michael P. Gray, Hilary Green, Allen C. Guelzo, Anna Gibson Holloway, Vitor Izecksohn, Caroline E. Janney, Michelle A. Krowl, Glenn W. LaFantasie, Jennifer M. Murray, Barton A. Myers, Timothy J. Orr, Christopher Phillips, Mark S. Schantz, Dana B. Shoaf, Walter Stahr, Michael Vorenberg, and Ronald C. White
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BRIAN MATTHEW JORDAN is associate professor and chairperson of history at Sam Houston State University. He is the author or editor of five books, including Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War; The War Went On: Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans; and A Thousand May Fall: An Immigrant Regiment's Civil War.
Jonathan W. White (Editor)
JONATHAN W. WHITE is professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep and Dreams during the Civil War; Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln; and A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House.
Content
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- List of Contributors
- Index
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