Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder by Kevin M. Levin

Author:Kevin M. Levin [Levin, Kevin M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, History, Social Science, United States, African American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Military, Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN: 9780813136103
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

Three states of the North, Maine, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, have erected monuments already to their dead on the battlefields around Petersburg, and other States would very gladly do so but for the obstacles they encounter in having to buy sites from the owners of private property. If the government purchased sufficient ground near Petersburg, and dedicated it to the use of the veterans of both armies as a national park, this difficulty would be overcome, and monuments to the memory of soldiers of the various commands, North and South, would spring up as if by magic. The value of these to the present generation, to posterity and to the truth of history would be more than commensurate with the cost to the government, to say nothing of the encouragement to patriotism of the inspiring example of a government that gratefully testifies to the memory of the men who died in its behalf. A people who forget their dead deserve themselves to be forgotten.

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