Introduction: American commemoration and the Civil War
The citizen soldier. Fields of memory: burial grounds and battlegrounds : Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 ; Woodrow Wilson, An Address at the Gettysburg Battlefield, July 4, 1913
Civic monuments : Soldiers Monuments, 1863-1919
Monument inscriptions : William Henry Trescot, Inscription on South Carolina Soldiers Monument, 1879
Rituals of remembrance : Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Soldier's Faith, May 30, 1895
Contemporary commemorations : NAACP, Resolution on Confederate Battle Flag and Emblem, 2001 ; Charley Reese, Purge South of Its Symbols? You're barking Up the Wrong Flagpole, 1997
Women of the war. Union women : Clara Barton, Account of a Public Lecture, 1882
Confederate women : Howard M. Hamill, Confederate Woman's Monument, April 1909 ; Laura Martin Rose, Address on Dedication of Mississippi Monument to Confederate Women, June 3, 1912
Robert E. Lee and the lost cause. Souther hero : Abram Joseph Ryan, The Sword of Robert E. Lee, 1867
A crossroads on monument avenue : John W. Daniel, Oration at the Dedication of the Lee Memorial in Lexington, June 28, 1883 ; Newspaper Commentary on the Lee Monument in Richmond, May 30-June 7, 1890
National hero : Charles Francis Adams Jr., Shall Cromwell Have a Statue? 1902
Representative regiment: the 54th Massachusetts. Epitaphs for an unmarked grave : Anna Quincy Waterston, Together, August 1863 ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, The Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth, October 1863
Black and white in bronze : William James, Oration at the Dedication of the Shaw Memorial, May 31, 1897 ; Booker T. Washington, Address at Dedication of the Shaw Memorial, May 31, 1897
Refracted remembrance : Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Gould Shaw, 1900 ; Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead, 1959
Lincoln's legacies. Emancipator and martyr : Henry McNeal Turner, On the Anniversary of Emancipation, January 1, 1866 ; Frederick Douglass, The Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1876
Democratic vistas : F. Wellington Ruckstull, A Mistake in Bronze, June 1917 ; George Bernard Shaw, Comments on Lincoln Statue Controversy, January 11, 1918
The end of American memory?
Appendixes. A chronology of Civil War commemoration (1862-2003)
Questions for consideration
