An Egyptomaniacal monument of a bibliophile in Savannah’s Bonaventure Cemetery.
Category Archives: U.S. Civil War
#Confederate
#Confederate: very up-to-date symbolism!
Pickelhaube!
A 4-year-old boy sculpted in a realistic Prussian military getup of Franco-Prussian War vintage on his tomb in KENTUCKY? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, people.
Lieutenant Lyman R. Nicholson
A ball to the shoulder was the beginning of the end for 1st Lieut. Lyman Nicholson at Gettysburg.
Hawkins’ Zouaves
Julius Langbein’s mausoleum makes aggressive claims on his behalf. See a new appendix with additional evidence for social competition among veterans!
Sherwood monument
Grim nineteenth-century demographics mourned with grim saccharine verses.
Also Freadrieg
A fireworks show does not clamor for our attention as much as this stone does!
The many flags of Scranton
Of the places I’ve been, none has Scranton’s variety of flags flying on private houses.
One of Lincoln’s Men
An interesting Civil War monument seen today in Damascus, PA.
Daniel Miles, victim of Gettysburg
Daniel Miles died of wounds received repulsing Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.
G. A. R. Place
Unusual stylized stone mortars decorate the monumental staircase of a GAR-reserved burial area in Flower Hill Cemetery in Binghamton, New York.
The Jago monument
The monument of George Jago compels interest for its use of a popular song and its odd iconography.
Howard Street, Ocracoke
Come stroll down charming Howard Street in Ocracoke, N.C.
Almost made it!
A Union soldier dead in the final push to take Petersburg and end the war: seven days before Lee surrendered.
G.A.R. Building, Scranton
An exceptional building on the National Register in Scranton with extraordinary terra cotta.
Still on guard
Outstanding and informative private monuments erected for two Union Civil War veterans.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Charles Harris McPhail’s mourners drew on their classical education to commemorate him.
Memorial Day 2020
Given my propensity for finding a sermon under every stone, you’ll not be surprised to find a Confederate tomb in Richmond exemplifying Memorial Day 2020.
What Robert E. Lee Can Learn from Mussolini
A meditation on how to deal with old monuments out of step with the times.
Carr-nival!
An astounding plot in Durham’s Maplewood Cemetery with three monumental axes.
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