When I went to Charleston for the first time late last year, I had no real visual idea of the city. I did expect to find Civil War memorials of some kind, even if they were only the ghosts of standing confederate soldiers or a Confederate general atop his stallion that had recently been removed. …
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Nashville’s Very Own Confederate Private Statue
Unveiled in 1909, the statue of a Confederate private in Nashville’s Centennial Park is not some unknown soldier, but rather according to the Smithsonian, it represents Tennessee’s own Confederate boy hero, Sam Davis. 1909 must have been a busy year for Confederate boy-hero statues in Nashville, because two were unveiled that year, the second on …
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Historic Monuments as Sites of Nationalist Tension
“Oh, home of tears, but let her bear this blazoned to the end of time: No nation rose so white and fair, none fell so pure of crime.” So reads an inscription on a Confederate soldier statue unveiled in 1911 on the lawn of the Cooke County courthouse in Gainesville, Texas. It is among many …
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Of Monuments and Memory 