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Civil War places : seeing the conflict through the eyes of its leading historians / edited by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman ; photographs by Will Gallagher.

Other author/creatorGallagher, Gary W. editor.
Other author/creatorGallman, J. Matthew (James Matthew) editor.
Other author/creatorGallagher, Will, 1968- illustrator.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Descriptionpages cm
Subject(s)
Contents Battlefields: places of fighting -- Cemeteries: places of mourning -- Memorials: places of memory -- Buildings: enduring places
Contents The church in the maelstrom / Stephen Berry -- My cave life in hospital / Sarah E. Gardner -- The triangular field and devil's den / J. Matthew Gallman -- Camp Allegheny / A. Wilson Greene -- Bridge to the past / Caroline E. Janney -- An unknown grave / Peter S. Carmichael -- Boundaries of memory at the Sand Creek site / Ari Kelman -- Ceding the high ground of hindsight / Aaron Sheehan-Dean -- Hidden in plain sight: the Los Angeles National Cemetery / Joan Waugh -- A "rightful place": the graves of George and Lasalle Pickett, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia / Lesley J. Gordon -- Black lives at Arlington National Cemetery: from slavery to segregation / William A. Blair -- At Nathaniel Bowditch's grave / Frances M. Clarke -- Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall: a place for quiet reflection / Carol Reardon -- Sherman at the Plaza / Stephen Cushman -- Memory's past and future: Harvard's Memorial Hall / Drew Gilpin Faust -- In the thickets of history and memory: using Charlottesville's Confederate memorial landscape / Gary W. Gallagher -- The people for whom he saved the union: the Lincoln Memorial / Judith Giesberg -- The Emancipation Oak: commemorating freedom, family, and intellectual pursuit / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Forging the Confederacy / Edward L. Ayers -- Cedar Hill: Frederick Douglass's personal Civil War museum for a public man / David W. Blight -- Surrender grounds: the McLean house at Appomattox / Elizabeth R. Varon -- The crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood: John Brown at the Charles Town court house / Stephen D. Engle -- My soldiers' home / James Marten -- The Green-Meldrim house / Jacqueline Jones -- A room of his own / Catherine Clinton -- Thoughts about shooting the images in Civil War places / Will Gallagher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2018038928
ISBN9781469649535 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1469649535

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