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Mississippi Civil War Monuments
An Illustrated Field Guide
Published by: Indiana University Press
448 Pages
- eBook
- 9780253045591
- Published: March 2020
$12.99
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- 9780253045577
- Published: March 2020
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Soaring obelisks, graceful arches, and soldiers standing tall atop pedestals recall the memory of the Civil War in Mississippi, a former Confederate state that boasts more Civil War monuments than any other.
In Mississippi Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated Field Guide, Timothy S. Sedore combs through the Mississippi landscape, exploring monuments commemorating important military figures and battles and remembering common soldiers, from rugged veterans to mournful youths. Sedore's insightful commentary captures a character portrait of Mississippi, a state that was ensnared between Northern and Southern ideologies and that paid a high price for seceding from the Union. Sedore's close examinations of these monuments broadens the narrative of Mississippi's heritage and helps illuminate the impacts of the Civil War.
With intriguing details and vivid descriptions, Mississippi Civil War Monuments offers a comprehensive guide to the monuments that make up Mississippi's physical and historical landscape.
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction
1. Vicksburg National Military Park
2. The Vicksburg National Monument Park Landscape
3. Northern Mississippi
Alcorn County
Tishomingo County
Tippah County
Prentiss County
Lee County
Pontotoc County
DeSoto County
Lafayette County
Yalobusha County
Tallahatchie County
Chickasaw County
Monroe County
Grenada County
Bolivar County
Washington County
Leflore County
Carrol County
Montgomery County
Oktibbeha County
Clay County
Lowndes County
4. Central Mississippi
Humphreys County
Holmes County
Attala County
Winston County
Noxubee County
Yazoo County
Madison County
Neshoba County
Kemper County
Lauderdale County
Rankin County
Hinds County
5. Southern Mississippi
Adams County
Jefferson County
Claiborne County
Copiah County
Lincoln County
Amite County
Jones County
Jasper County
Clarke County
Wayne County
Forrest County
Pearl River County
George County
Harrison County
Selected Sources
Timothy S. Sedore is the author of three books that explore how the Civil War is memorialized in the American South. Mississippi Civil War Monuments joins Tennessee Civil War Monuments and An Illustrated Guide to Virginia's Confederate Monuments as a survey and analysis of the legacy of the war on the American landscape.
Sedore is Professor of English at The City University of New York, Bronx Community College. He regularly teaches undergraduate courses in composition, literature, and religious rhetoric. He is also an ordained Baptist minister.
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Against the fraught backdrop of debate over Civil War statues, Timothy Sedore guides us deftly through 800 Union and Confederate monuments in Mississippi with judicious precision and Lincolnian magnanimity. Now more than ever, we are fortunate to have this level-headed, clear-eyed book.
" ~Stephen Cushman, Robert E. Taylor Professor of English, University of Virginia
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"Mississippi's 800 Civil War-related monuments far exceed in number those in any other state—including more commemorating the Union than anywhere but Pennsylvania.. Timothy S. Sedore's exceptionally valuable survey should find an appreciate readership at a time when Americans are debating how best to deal with statues and other monuments that reflect the war's, and history's, hard edges."
" ~Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Union War
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The Magnolia State saw some of the most significant fighting of the Civil War, and it was in Mississippi that arguably the most important campaign of the conflict took place, now fittingly commemorated in the Vicksburg National Military Park. Timothy S. Sedore's Mississippi Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated Field Guide provides a wonderful and insightful glimpse into the state's Civil War history while taking the reader on a tour of the monuments that commemorate both the fighting and the men who did the fighting.
" ~Timothy B. Smith, author of Shiloh: Conquer or Perish, Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, and The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi.
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"Anyone visiting Mississippi's Civil War landscape would be well served to carry a copy of Sedore's guide with them. From Vicksburg to Oxford, readers will find a rich examination of how and why Confederate and Union monuments sprang up across the state."
" ~Caroline E. Janney, Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia