North Carolina Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated History
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (874 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786468564 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Presents photographs and descriptions of 109 Civil War monuments, memorials, and commemorations erected in North Carolina between 1865 and 1961." --Reference & Research Book News
Great resource This is a great resource with lots of information. The photos are excellant. However all the information for a monument it not all in one place. You will have to look in different places in the book to get all the information for to a monumnet.. "the author does a great job of giving an historical summary with respective photographs" according to Robert A. Lynn. NORTH CAROLINA CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORYDOUGLAS J. BUTLERMCFARLAND PUBLISHING, 201the author does a great job of giving an historical summary with respective photographs NORTH CAROLINA CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORYDOUGLAS J. BUTLERMCFARLAND PUBLISHING, 2013QUALITY SOFTCOVER, $39.95, 272 PAGES, PHOTOGRAPHS, APPENDICES, CHAPTER NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEXAlthough Union sentiment was relatively strong in North Carolina, one of the original 13 colonies, the call for men after the fall of Fort Sumter brought the response from then Governor John W. Ellis: "You can get no troops from North Carolina." After the proclamation blocking Southern ports, all Unionist papers . QUALITY SOFTCOVER, $the author does a great job of giving an historical summary with respective photographs NORTH CAROLINA CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORYDOUGLAS J. BUTLERMCFARLAND PUBLISHING, 2013QUALITY SOFTCOVER, $39.95, 272 PAGES, PHOTOGRAPHS, APPENDICES, CHAPTER NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEXAlthough Union sentiment was relatively strong in North Carolina, one of the original 13 colonies, the call for men after the fall of Fort Sumter brought the response from then Governor John W. Ellis: "You can get no troops from North Carolina." After the proclamation blocking Southern ports, all Unionist papers . 9.95, 272 PAGES, PHOTOGRAPHS, APPENDICES, CHAPTER NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEXAlthough Union sentiment was relatively strong in North Carolina, one of the original 1the author does a great job of giving an historical summary with respective photographs NORTH CAROLINA CIVIL WAR MONUMENTS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORYDOUGLAS J. BUTLERMCFARLAND PUBLISHING, 2013QUALITY SOFTCOVER, $39.95, 272 PAGES, PHOTOGRAPHS, APPENDICES, CHAPTER NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEXAlthough Union sentiment was relatively strong in North Carolina, one of the original 13 colonies, the call for men after the fall of Fort Sumter brought the response from then Governor John W. Ellis: "You can get no troops from North Carolina." After the proclamation blocking Southern ports, all Unionist papers . colonies, the call for men after the fall of Fort Sumter brought the response from then Governor John W. Ellis: "You can get no troops from North Carolina." After the proclamation blocking Southern ports, all Unionist papers . I was expecting color pictures. I was wanting to Amazon Customer I was expecting color pictures. I was wanting to see the monuments in detail. Black and white photos do not show the craftsmanship than went into these monuments.
Photographs showcase each memorial while committee records, legal documents, and contemporaneous accounts are used to detail the difficult process through which these monuments were erected. Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. This memorialization, described in North Carolina Civil War Monuments, evolved through a challenging and contentious process accomplished over decades. Prompted by the need to rebury wartime dead, memorialization, led by women, first expressed regional grief and mourning then expanded into a vital aspect of Southern memory. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition expanded, and by the early twentieth century, the Confederate dead and surviving veterans, although defeated in battle, ranked among the world's most commemorated troops. Their design, location, and funding reflect not only the period's sculptural and cultural milieu but also reveal one state's evolving grief and the forging of public memory.. In North Carolina, 109 Civil War monuments--101 honoring Confederate troops and eight commemorating Union forces--were raised prior to the Civil War centennial
He lives in Crumpler, North Carolina. Douglas J. Butler is an independent scholar, practicing physician, and avid photographer.