Landmarks of the Civil War
By: Nina Silber.
Contributors: National Register of Historic Places.; National Parks Foundation (U.S.)
Series: American landmarks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780195129205
Subjects: Historic sites -- United States.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Battlefields.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Monuments.; United States -- History, Local.
First sentence: Few experiences can connect us with our past more completely than walking the ground where our history happened.
Description: The Civil War left an indelible stamp on the American landscape. It turned Fort Sumter —originally intended to defend Charleston harbor— into that city's enemy territory; it transformed the peach orchards and wheatfields at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, into killing fields, commemorated by President Lincoln' Gettysburg Address; it turned Wilmer McLean's parlor at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, into a diplomatic meeting room where generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee negotiated terms of surrender; it converted Washington, D.C.'s Old Patent Office into a makeshift hospital where Clara Barton and other nurses tended to the wounded, and Tannehill Furnace from an iron-producing forge to an artillery furnace. And most permanently, it transformed General Robert E. Lee's magnificent Virginia plantation into Arlington National Cemetery, a final resting place for thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. Each site in *Landmarks of the Civil War* explores an aspect of the war —be it military, political, economic, or social— by way of such historic place. Author Nina Silber takes readers on a series of field trips to the sites where the Union was preserved and where the cost of that ideal resonates to this day.
Notes: Includes illustrations (some color), bibliographical references (p. 134-135) and index.
"Published in association with the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, and the National Parks Foundation."
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 8; title: How to Use this Book
pagenum: 10; title: Preface
pagenum: 12; title: The Cooper Union Building
pagenum: 14; title: Fort Sumter National Monument
pagenum: 25; title: The White House of the Confederacy
pagenum: 34; title: Manassas National Battlefield Park
pagenum: 46; title: National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery
pagenum: 56; title: Tannehill Furnace
pagenum: 63; title: Port Hudson
pagenum: 71; title: Gettysburg National Military Park
pagenum: 83; title: Honey Springs Battlefield
pagenum: 96; title: Andersonville National Historic Site
pagenum: 106; title: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
pagenum: 115; title: Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial
pagenum: 124; title: Chronology
pagenum: 132; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 134; title: Index
pagenum: 137