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Title

The golden age of battlefield preservation : the decade of the 1890s and the establishment of America's first five military parks / Timothy B. Smith ; with a foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.

Author

Smith, Timothy B., 1974-

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

xxiii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Smith's book is the first to look at the process of battlefield preservation as a whole. He focuses on how each of these sites was established and the important individuals - the congressmen, the former soldiers, the veteran commissioners who were the catalysts for the creation of these parks." "The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation is a watershed book that will be of interest to any reader who wishes to have a better understanding of how such preservation efforts were initiated."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Battlefields > Conservation and restoration > United States > History
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Battlefields
• Military parks > Government policy > United States > History
• Antietam National Battlefield (Md.) > History
• Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (Ga. and Tenn.)
• Shiloh National Military Park (Tenn. and Miss.) > History
• Gettysburg National Military Park (Pa.) > History
• United States > Cultural policy
• National parks and reserves > Government policy > United States > History
• Vicksburg National Military Park (Miss.) > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-281) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Edwin C. Bearss -- The Context of Civil War Battlefield Preservation -- 1. Battlefields, Cemeteries, and Early Preservation: The Prelude to the 1890s-Era Parks, 1861-1890 -- 2. Congress, the War Department, and the National Military Parks: The Context of the 1890s-Era Battlefield Preservation, 1890-1933 -- 3. "A Western Gettysburg": Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, 1890-1933 -- 4. "The Experiment at Antietam": Antietam National Battlefield, 1890-1933 -- 5. "This Great Battlefield": Shiloh National Military Park, 1894-1933 -- 6. "A Splendid Monument to American Valor" Gettysburg National Military Park, 1895-1933 -- 7. "A Valuable Contribution to Military Science": Vicksburg National Military Park, 1899-1933 -- 8. The Golden Age Reassessed -- Appendix 1. Enabling Legislation -- Appendix 2. Military Park Commissioners and Board Members.

ISBN

• 9781572336223 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1572336226

LCCN

• 2007033770
• 40015533628

OCLC

• ocn166273707
• 166273707
• SCSB-5414921

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries