Article
Back to the Battlefield: A Cultural Historian’s View of Civil War Memorials at Appomattox, Fredericksburg, and Island Mound
Common-place
(2014)
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
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/