Author: HILLMAN, BENJAMIN J
Title: Monuments to Memories - Virginia's Civil War Heritage in Bronze and Stone
Description: Virginia Civil War Commission. Booklet. 48 pages. Foreword by James J. Geary, Executive Director, VA CW Commission. Profusely illustrated - text plus illustrations. Includes Confederate monuments of various types, such as battlefield markers, statues, pyramid type structures, sculptures, monuments, etc. In addition to the history of the monument, there is also a history of fundraising, the artists, inscriptions, etc. Epilogue states in part "Too often we of the present generation tend to lose sight of the fact that the men and women of the Civil War period and the tragic era which followed were real people with many of the same hopes, fears and desires that are shared today." History should not be erased. G .

Keywords: Monuments in Virginia Stonewall Jackson Civil War (War between the States) F. William Sievers Confederate Monuments Salient Markers Sally Tompkins Captain Jean Antonin Mercie


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