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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Lake County, Ohio Soldiers’ Monument
Lake County is the smallest county in the entire state of Ohio. It lies along Lake Erie in the northeastern corner of the state; its county seat, Painesville, is about 30 miles from downtown Cleveland. It is a beautiful county full of attractive towns, a high quality of life, and rich history. I have had […]
Read more...Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Wisconsin Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park
Emerging Civil War welcomes back Paige Gibbons-Backus Growing up in Wisconsin, I have always been interested in history, and while Wisconsin has some interesting Civil War history such as the Iron Brigade, “Old Abe,” and Camp Randall, it really was not a main focus. To get my Civil War history, I have always traveled east […]
Read more...Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington D.C.
An important monument of President Abraham Lincoln sits in Lincoln Park, a park in the Capitol Hill section of Washington, D.C. This statue is seen by thousands of people each day – the Emancipation Memorial. I wonder about how many of them know either of its history or importance to the memory of the Civil […]
Read more...Battlefield Markers & Monuments: From Civil to World War – The Missouri State Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest author Kristen M. Pawlak (Trout) On the northeast sector of Vicksburg National Military Park near the Stockade Redan, sits the Missouri State Memorial, one of the only memorials there that is dedicated to both Federal and Confederate troops who served in one of the most consequential campaigns in the Western […]
Read more...Battlefield Markers & Monuments: What’s On The Blog Series Header?
What’s the small battlefield monument image on the blog series header? Short Answer: 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument at Gettysburg National Military Park. Located at The Angle on Cemetery Ridge, this monument is actually one of two at Gettysburg for the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry. Recognizable and well-photographed, it was dedicated in 1891 and has its own […]
Read more...Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Jackson at Chancellorsville
In early 1887, as fans of Union General John Sedgwick prepared to raise a monument to him at the Spotsylvania Court House battlefield, local residents got to wondering about erecting a monument of their own to a fallen Southern general. Of course, the natural candidate was Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, mortally wounded during […]
Read more...Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Gettysburg vs. Petersburg
A veteran Union general reflected on battlefield landscapes, markers, and monuments several decades after the war during a visit to Petersburg, Virginia. There is a peculiar impressiveness about the forsaken. Some deep places in us are moved by a forlorn field like this [Petersburg] than by a glorified one like Gettysburg. At any rate, the […]
Read more...Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Antietam’s New Jersey Monument
Of the cluster of monuments dotting the southwest corner of Antietam’s bloody Cornfield, one seems to stand out among the rest. Its height is certainly not unique, nor is the fact that a bronze soldier adorns it (one can find many lifesize soldiers atop Civil War monuments). The inscriptions running along its base are commonplace, […]
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