"Back to the Battlefield: A Cultural Historian’s View of Civil War Memorials at Appomattox, Fredericksburg, and Island Mound" by Adam Arenson

Article

Back to the Battlefield: A Cultural Historian’s View of Civil War Memorials at Appomattox, Fredericksburg, and Island Mound

Common-place (2014)

Adam Arenson, University of Texas at El Paso

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Abstract

What do battlefield commemorations tell us--about the Civil War, the commemorators, and ourselves? A consideration of plaque edits, seemingly homoerotic sculpture, and new memories at Appomattox, Fredericksburg, and Island Mound.

Keywords

Civil War,
memory,
memorialization,
plaque

Disciplines

American Art and Architecture,
American Studies,
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies and
United States History

Publication Date

Winter 2014

Citation Information

Adam Arenson. "Back to the Battlefield: A Cultural Historian’s View of Civil War Memorials at Appomattox, Fredericksburg, and Island Mound" Common-place Vol. 14 Iss. 2 (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/adam_arenson/37/