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It is time to vote for the next cover. Given recent events, I thought it would be appropriate this month to do something different. For September, we will be placing a Civil War Monument on the cover.
Please vote for the image that you think best represents our response to those who want to tear monuments down. There are some excellent ones presented here. Each is deserving in its own way. Please explain why you voted for the one you did. This is a teachable moment to discuss why these monuments are important to us as historians and as remembrances for both sides of the conflict:
Image #1 - The New York Peace Monument at Lookout Mountain, Submitted by David Mcaskill.
Image #2 - National Cemetery and site of the POW camp in Salisbury, NC. Note that the inscription reads "For our Country tis a bliss to die." Submitted by Tyler Underwood.
Image #3 - "The monument is entitled “Spirit Triumphant,” and was created by Donald DeLue, who was also the sculptor of the Mississippi monument. It represents a wounded gunner of New Orleans Washington Artillery clutching to his heart a Confederate battle flag while above him the Spirit of the Confederacy sounds a trumpet and raises a flaming cannonball. A nearby marker bears a tablet with the names of the commission responsible for the monument. Louisiana sent over 3,000 men to Gettysburg with the Army of Northern Virginia. Around 725 became casualties. It was the seventh largest contingent and the seventh highest casualties of the twelve Confederate states at Gettysburg." - Submitted by Rae Evans. SOURCE
Image #4 - Kentucky Monument at Chickamauga Battlefield. This monument honors the sacrifice of both Union and Confederate soldiers from Kentucky. Taken by me in June of 2017. In times such as these, this is a great reminder that we CAN honor the sacrifice of men from both sides. Submitted by Derrick Lindow.
Image #5 - Lee/Virginia Monument at Seminary Ridge/Gettysburg. Submitted by Stephen Lunsford.
Image #6 - Mahone monument at the Petersburg crater. The Petersburg siege and crater battle have been fascinating topics for me for a while now. It reminds me of how brutal war can be, and I hope we never have to return to this sort of violence amongst ourselves as a nation. Submitted by Kent Baxley.
Image #7 - This is the Maryland Monument at Antietam. It is important because is truly shows how one state contributed to both sides during the war allowing people to see the brother against brother, neighbor vs. neighbor that was the Civil War. I purposely found an image that has people in it because that is what monuments are for to learn from and understand what has happened in our past. From the youngest generations to the oldest. The picture is of the backside of the monument but through it you can see the Dunker church which was a focal point of the battle. Submitted by Don Woods.
Image #8 - The monument in Congressional Cemetery to the girls and women of the Washington Arsenal, killed in an explosion of munitions in the spring of 1864. Submitted by Michael Schaffner.
Image #9 - One of the very first monuments - Manassas/Bull Run. Submitted by Mark "Silas" Tackitt.
Image #10 - This is the less famous tomb of the unknowns at Arlington. Beneath this lie the remains of hundreds of men collected from the Bull Run battlefield, including (probably) my G-G-G-Uncle, William Monroe Scott. He served in Co. H, 7th WI. Inscription Reads: BENEATH THIS STONE REPOSE THE BONES OF TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN UNKNOWN SOLDIERS GATHERED AFTER THE WAR FROM THE FIELDS OF BULL RUN, AND THE ROUTE TO THE RAPPAHANOCK, THEIR REMAINS COULD NOT BE IDENTIFIED. BUT THEIR NAMES AND DEATHS ARE RECORDED IN THE ARCHIVES OF THEIR COUNTRY, AND ITS GRATEFUL CITIZENS HONOR THEM AS OF THEIR NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS. MAY THEY REST IN PEACE. SEPTEMBER. A. D. 1866. Submitted by Tyler D. Scott
Please vote for the image that you think best represents our response to those who want to tear monuments down. There are some excellent ones presented here. Each is deserving in its own way. Please explain why you voted for the one you did. This is a teachable moment to discuss why these monuments are important to us as historians and as remembrances for both sides of the conflict:
Image #1 - The New York Peace Monument at Lookout Mountain, Submitted by David Mcaskill.
Image #2 - National Cemetery and site of the POW camp in Salisbury, NC. Note that the inscription reads "For our Country tis a bliss to die." Submitted by Tyler Underwood.
Image #3 - "The monument is entitled “Spirit Triumphant,” and was created by Donald DeLue, who was also the sculptor of the Mississippi monument. It represents a wounded gunner of New Orleans Washington Artillery clutching to his heart a Confederate battle flag while above him the Spirit of the Confederacy sounds a trumpet and raises a flaming cannonball. A nearby marker bears a tablet with the names of the commission responsible for the monument. Louisiana sent over 3,000 men to Gettysburg with the Army of Northern Virginia. Around 725 became casualties. It was the seventh largest contingent and the seventh highest casualties of the twelve Confederate states at Gettysburg." - Submitted by Rae Evans. SOURCE
Image #4 - Kentucky Monument at Chickamauga Battlefield. This monument honors the sacrifice of both Union and Confederate soldiers from Kentucky. Taken by me in June of 2017. In times such as these, this is a great reminder that we CAN honor the sacrifice of men from both sides. Submitted by Derrick Lindow.
Image #5 - Lee/Virginia Monument at Seminary Ridge/Gettysburg. Submitted by Stephen Lunsford.
Image #6 - Mahone monument at the Petersburg crater. The Petersburg siege and crater battle have been fascinating topics for me for a while now. It reminds me of how brutal war can be, and I hope we never have to return to this sort of violence amongst ourselves as a nation. Submitted by Kent Baxley.
Image #7 - This is the Maryland Monument at Antietam. It is important because is truly shows how one state contributed to both sides during the war allowing people to see the brother against brother, neighbor vs. neighbor that was the Civil War. I purposely found an image that has people in it because that is what monuments are for to learn from and understand what has happened in our past. From the youngest generations to the oldest. The picture is of the backside of the monument but through it you can see the Dunker church which was a focal point of the battle. Submitted by Don Woods.
Image #8 - The monument in Congressional Cemetery to the girls and women of the Washington Arsenal, killed in an explosion of munitions in the spring of 1864. Submitted by Michael Schaffner.
Image #9 - One of the very first monuments - Manassas/Bull Run. Submitted by Mark "Silas" Tackitt.
Image #10 - This is the less famous tomb of the unknowns at Arlington. Beneath this lie the remains of hundreds of men collected from the Bull Run battlefield, including (probably) my G-G-G-Uncle, William Monroe Scott. He served in Co. H, 7th WI. Inscription Reads: BENEATH THIS STONE REPOSE THE BONES OF TWO THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN UNKNOWN SOLDIERS GATHERED AFTER THE WAR FROM THE FIELDS OF BULL RUN, AND THE ROUTE TO THE RAPPAHANOCK, THEIR REMAINS COULD NOT BE IDENTIFIED. BUT THEIR NAMES AND DEATHS ARE RECORDED IN THE ARCHIVES OF THEIR COUNTRY, AND ITS GRATEFUL CITIZENS HONOR THEM AS OF THEIR NOBLE ARMY OF MARTYRS. MAY THEY REST IN PEACE. SEPTEMBER. A. D. 1866. Submitted by Tyler D. Scott
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