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23 - The Civil War in Public Memory

from Part III - Outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
Caroline E. Janney
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Summary

By July 4, 1865, vestiges of the savage battle that had wrecked Gettysburg two years earlier were beginning to fade. On this first Fourth of July since peace, thousands descended once more on the small town, but this time veterans of the Army of the Potomac joined state dignitaries to lay the cornerstone for a soldiers’ monument in the national cemetery. Speaking to the somber crowd, Major General Oliver Otis Howard, commander of the XI Corps during the battle and commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, declared that the memorial they now dedicated was raised to the Union soldier and his “unceasing herald of labor, suffering, union, liberty, and sacrifice.” “The maimed bodies, the multitude of graves, the historic fields, the monumental stones like this we are laying to-day,” he noted, “are only meager memorials of the soldiers’ work.”

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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 481 - 505
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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