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- Title
A Confederate Memorial the "Equal of Gettysburg".
- Authors
BURNS, MICHAEL
- Abstract
An essay is presented concerning the significance of sectionalism and collective memory in the establishment of the Manassas National Battlefield Park (MNBP) in Virginia between 1890 and 1940. The article examines the efforts of the organizations the United Confederate Veterans (UCV), Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and Union veteran George Carr Round in preserving the Manassas battlefield. According to the article, the MNBP became part of the U.S. agency the National Park Service (NPS) in 1940.
- Subjects
MANASSAS National Battlefield Park (Va.); UNITED States; SECTIONALISM (U.S.); COLLECTIVE memory; ROUND, George Carr; SONS of Confederate Veterans (Organization); UNITED Daughters of the Confederacy (Organization); UNITED States. National Park Service; AMERICAN Civil War battlefields
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2015, Vol 123, Issue 2, p141
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Essay