Charles Harris McPhail’s mourners drew on their classical education to commemorate him.
Category Archives: Confederate
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.
The big touchdown
JAMES WILLIAM FOSTER monument, Union Cemetery, Leesburg, VA. Photo of the JAMES WILLIAM FOSTER monument: author. That was JAMES WILLIAM FOSTER, in case you missed it. Often you can’t know who is responsible for the text on a funerary monument. Sometimes a shrewd guess is possible, such as when the monument antedates the subject’s death; […]
The J. Henley Smith funerary portrait
J. Henley Smith Mausoleum, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Photo: author. This is the J[ames]. Henley Smith Mausoleum in Rock Creek Cemetery. It was designed by Worthington and Ahrens, built by Leland and Hall about 1910. The sum budgeted for it was $20,000, with $2000 more made over to the trustees of the cemetery for […]
