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A Visit to Richmond’s Monument Avenue
On Monday, June 22, I visited Richmond’s Monument Avenue to see for myself the effects of recent protests. You can see video from that trip on ECW’s YouTube page. What follows is an account of that trip. Some readers may find some of the language offensive. The exit ramp from I-95 deposits us onto Arthur […]
Read more...Statues of Stonewall: Monument Avenue, Richmond
Fifth in a series Richmond is a city that refuses to give up its ghosts. Instead, it has cast them in bronze and set them along the city’s most picturesque street: Monument Avenue.
Read more...Confederate Irish Soldier Who Fought at Gettysburg Sculpts the Irish Brigade Monument at Gettysburg
ECW welcomes guest author John B. Haltigan It is a remarkable irony of history that the most visited monument at Gettysburg that the monument to the New York regiments of the Irish Brigade was sculpted by a Confederate soldier who fought at Gettysburg. The monument, dedicated in 1888 and located on Sickles Avenue near where […]
Read more...A hero’s death inspired Maine’s first civilian-funded Civil War monument
A hero killed at Murfreesboro inspired the first civilian-funded Civil War monument erected in Maine. A Maine native, Stephen Decatur Carpenter graduated from West Point on July 1, 1840, joined the 1st Infantry Regiment as a shave tail lieutenant, and fought Seminoles, Mexicans, Comanches, and Confederates, in that order. Widower Carpenter married his second wife, […]
Read more...“Nuns on the Battlefield” Monument
Located at the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue, Connecticut Avenue, and M Street in Washington D.C., there is a unique Civil War monument dedicated to the hundreds of Catholic nuns who volunteered as nurses during the conflict. The monument was approved by the United States Congress in 1919 (though paid for privately) and dedicated 1924. […]
Read more...The Contested Origins of Gettysburg’s Virginia Monument
The Virginia Monument, one of the earliest and largest Confederate monuments on the Gettysburg battlefield, has a dramatic history. Ever since it was in the earliest phases of proposal, the monument has been a strong symbolic figure and elicited strong emotions. But what, exactly, does it symbolize? From its inception to its dedication to more […]
Read more...2nd Maine veteran funded the monument to his regiment
A veteran’s desire to immortalize the 2nd Maine Infantry Regiment in bronze and stone finally bore fruit more than a century after the outfit left central Maine to help save the Union. Born to lumberman Waldo Treat Peirce and his wife, Hannah Jane Peirce, in Bangor in 1837, Luther Hills Peirce grew up on Harlow […]
Read more...Monuments Moved at Gettysburg?: The 15th, 19th, and 20th Massachusetts Infantry
By the end of 1863, the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association began to preserve the sacred soil of the Gettysburg battlefield. As time passed, veterans returned to the field in order to dedicate monuments to permanently tell their stories. Some of the first monuments around the Angle are for Massachusetts regiments that advanced to the copse […]
Read more...On Monuments, America Must Never Surrender to Confederates, Old or New (conclusion)
part four of four ECW is pleased to welcome guest author Frank J. Scaturro. Frank is president of the Grant Monument Association and the author of President Grant Reconsidered and The Supreme Court’s Retreat from Reconstruction. He is currently writing a book about New York City’s largely forgotten sites from the founding era. The views expressed are […]
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