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struggle4progress

(118,234 posts)
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 05:12 PM Sep 2015

There are several civil war memorials in my town

One is the "Unity monument" at the site where Confederate General Joseph E Johnston surrendered to General William T Sherman on 26 April 1855. This was erected, in 1923, over the objections of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The style (two pillars representing North and South, joined by a capstone) and date suggest to me that this monument might have been intended to celebrate the Wilson-era triumph of Jim Crow



Another is in front of the old county courthouse; it was dedicated in 1924.



A new courthouse was later built across the street. A newer one has since been built several blocks away.

Not far from the downtown courthouse is Maplewood Cemetery. This now lies inside city limits but did not when established in 1872. A certain number of remains were exhumed from church graveyards for placement here. It contains (among other burials) a number of CSA graves



Pauli Murray's book Proud Shoes contains a description of the well at her childhood home (originally built around 1900 at some distance from the cemetery) was contaminated by later enlargement of the cemetery. It is the white one-and-a-half story shown here



This May, the Sons of Confederate Veterans added a new confederate memorial in city-owned Maplewood Cemetery





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