Monuments, Tablets and Other Memorials
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Roe, Alfred S.) |
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Excerpt from Monuments, Tablets and Other Memorials: Erected in Massachusetts to Commemorate the Service of Her Sons in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 In the many years succeeding the war, the question has often arisen, "Has such a city or town anything to commemorate the struggle which cost the nation so much in blood and treasure?" No immediate answer has been possible thus far. The material for complete information has long been in existence, but, until the present collection was made, nothing was known of the many municipalities of the Commonwealth, save as direct inquiry was made. A man travelling through Massachusetts and seeing in so many cities and villages the towering shaft, dedicated to the memory of the patriotic dead, naturally thinks that almost every division of the old Bay State has some kind of a memento of the far-off war × but closer observation and more extended searching reveal the fact that above one hundred Massachusetts towns have, as yet, nothing to indicate a memory of the sacrifices that nearly rived the nation almost fifty years ago. Still, the record is a proud one, since the excess over one memorial is so great in many of the larger towns and in the cities that there is an easy average of more than a single tribute for every one of the three hundred and fifty-four parts into which the Commonwealth is divided. The cost of monument or other memento varies greatly, ranging from the $150,000 memorial on Boston Common downward to the humble record placed upon the inner wall of a rustic town hall, at an expense of $50 or less. This compilation is made with a full consciousness that it will not meet with the approval of the Universal Peace Society, to which all histories and memories of wars are anathema; at the same time the scars of the terrible strife are so very fresh and visible hat, so long as a survivor of the Civil War remains, the people mast think and talk about it. To satisfy a natural curiosity as to how much the Commonwealth has done in this direction, when and in what way it was accomplished, this collection was made. It has been no easy task. At first, in October, 1908, circulars were sent to every Grand Army Post in the State, and, where no Post existed, to the town clerk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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