Index
abatis, 95, 134 abolitionists, differences in view of John Brown’s raid between white and black, 60–61 Act for Preservation of American Antiquities , 14, 17 African-American History Museum, Harpers ferry, 68; “Clash of the Titans: DuBois versus Washington,” 73–74 African American millennialists, 75 African Americans, view of John Brown’s raid, 60–61 African Americans soldiers, 157 Albertson, Jonathan, 41 Albright, Horace, 17 Amistad, 75 Antietam, Battle of, 93, 133; photographs of, 124–25 Antietam National Battlefield Park, 13 Armistead, Lewis, 44 Army of Northern virginia, 132 Army of the Potomac, 132, 134 Ashby, Turner, 89 Banks, Nathaniel P., 132 battery tablets, 98 battlefields: in commemorative tradition, 26; designated as battlefield parks, 106; historic preservation debates about, 14–19. See also National Park Service (NPS), historic parks and battlefields battle narratives, as transmitters of public memories of Civil War, 4 Bearss, Edwin C., 13 Bellow, Barbara L., 11 Benet, Stephen vincent, 69 Birth of a Nation, 26 Black, Edwin, 31, 33 Blackford,William, 95, 133 Blair, Carole, 162n7 Blight, David W., 9, 10, 21; on frederick Douglas, 12–13, 163n13; Race and Reunion , 27, 70, 167n7, 167n10, 171n26 “Bloody Angle of Spotsylvania,” 135 Bodnar, John, 8, 14, 112 Bourke, Joanna, 100 Brady, Matthew, Civil War photographs, 33–35; eastern edge of McPherson’s Woods, 123–24; heroic interpretation of battle, 121; lack of visible markers of destruction and killing, 122; landscape aesthetic, 122–23; “Wheatfield in which General Reynolds was shot,” 33–35, 121–23, 122 brigade markers, 98 Brown, John, 55; exaggeration of raid’s impact, 63; and insanity interpretation of actions, 62–63; and politics of legacy, 64; public discourse about immediately following raid, 60–64; quotations from hanging, 62, 77–78. See also Harpers ferry National Historical Park (HfNHP); John Brown Museum Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. 184 / Index Browne, Stephen H. Browne, 9, 162n7 Buchanan, James, 61 Burns, John, 121 Chancellorsville, Battle of, 134 Chatelain,verne, 17–18 Chattanooga, Battle of, 134 chevaux-de-frise, 95 Chickamauga, Battle of, 133 Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, 13 Christian faith, and battlefield success, 90–91 Civil War combat: challenge of technology to heroic masculinity, 95; color-bearers, 94; and depersonalization of war, 92, 95, 96, 97; earthworks, 94–95; frontal assault, 93–94, 131; heroic interpretations of, 88–92; muzzleloaders , 93; and new technologies for killing, 93, 95, 130, 158; popular representations of, 150–51; savage interpretations of, 92–97; sharpshooting, 95, 101–2, 128, 144, 145, 147; “total warfare” of 1864–1865, 87, 133, 151, 156; trench warfare, 95, 133, 134, 139, 143–44; war of attrition, 95–96, 97, 151, 158 Civil War commemoration: “common soldier” monument, 167n8; Northern tributes to Abraham Lincoln, 11; scholarship on, 163n17; in twentieth century, 13–14. See also specific parks Civil War literature, demand for realist, 164n18 Cold Harbor, Battle of, 94; covered-ways, 143; evolution from open field fighting to trench warfare, 139; negotiation of truce between Grant and Lee, 137, 144–45; sharpshooting, 144, 145, 147 Cold Harbor visitor Center (CHvC), 2, 5, 137–51; “A Deadly Delay” wayside marker, 144–46; African Americans collecting bones of soldiers killed in battle, photograph, 149–50; “A Lethal occupation” wayside marker, 145–46; anthropomorphizing of nature , 140–41, 146; “Bayonets Are for Digging,” 147–48; “Cold Harbor Battlefield” wayside marker, 139–40; “In the footsteps of History” wayside marker, 140–41; “Keep Digging” wayside marker, 143–44; “Keepyour Head Down” wayside marker, 143–44; lack of requisite land to interpret full chronology of battle, 138, 156; military strategy discourse, 138, 140, 141, 142, 143; “Nowhere To Go” wayside marker, 147–48; omnipresence of death, 145–46, 156; Read’s Battalion CSA Artillery wayside marker, 141, 142; savage interpretations of war, 132–51, 156; “The Ultimate Sacrifice” wayside marker, 148–50; “The Waters Ran Red” wayside marker, 146–47; walking tour, 138; wayside perspective on inhumanity of trench warfare, 143–44;We Must Hold the Line wayside marker, 142–43 color-bearers, 94 Colquitt, Aldred, 141 Confederate flag debates, 171n31 Confederate veterans of virginia, 116 Connelly, Thomas, 11 Corinth, Mississippi, 20 courage: and gender and race, 90–91; and heroic white masculinity, 85, 88–89; and honor, 89–90 Courage’s war, 104 covered-ways (zigzags), 143 Crane, Stephen: Red Badge of Courage, 164n18 Davis, Jefferson, 11 Dawes, Rufus R., 103, 104 Decatur, Battle of, 94 disease, among soldiers, 92 Dixon, Benjamin, 43 Douglass, frederick: emancipationist memory, 57–58, 69, 72, 79, 154, 158...
OR
