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Create an exhibit panel, complete with images, for Alexandria National Cemetery's visitors to read about the removal and reburial of the Confederate war dead. Be sure to explain how this specific...

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Create an exhibit panel, complete with images, for Alexandria National Cemetery's visitors to read about the removal and reburial of the Confederate war dead. Be sure to explain how this specific episode fits into the national context of memorializing Civil War dead. Keep in mind that this display is meant to be informative rather than ideological.

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During the Civil War, Confederate prisoners of war were buried in national cemeteries, such as Alexandria National Cemetery. Like at Alexandria, many were later removed by their family or...

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During the Civil War, Confederate prisoners of war were buried in national cemeteries, such as Alexandria National Cemetery. Like at Alexandria, many were later removed by their family or organizations such as the Southern Memorial Association. Research another national cemetery and present your findings (as a paper, video, exhibit, or another creative project) comparing the story of southern soldiers buried at that cemetery and those buried at Alexandria National Cemetery.

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Anti-Reconstruction wood engraving, "Murder of Louisiana sacrificed at the altar of radicalism."
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  • Anti-Reconstruction wood engraving, "Murder of Louisiana sacrificed at the altar of radicalism."

“Murder of Louisiana sacrificed on the altar of radicalism,” Wood engraving, 1871, Library of Congress.
Petition to US War Department asking for permission to remove Confederate dead from Alexandria Soldiers' Cemetery, 1879.
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  • Petition to US War Department asking for permission to remove Confederate dead from Alexandria Soldiers' Cemetery, 1879.

Maj. Gen. Montgomery Meigs to Secretary of War George W. McCrary, November 26, 1879, [File], [RG], National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
Union and Confederate veterans celebrate Memorial Day together for the first time at Alexandria Soldiers' Cemetery in 1891.
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  • Union and Confederate veterans celebrate Memorial Day together for the first time at Alexandria Soldiers' Cemetery in 1891.

Robert Bell, "LET US HAVE PEACE.": An Alexandria Man on the Blue and Gray," Washington Post, June 5, 1891, 2.
Excerpt form speech text
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William McKinley, “Speech before the the Legislature in Joint Assembly at the State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 1898,” in Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley, from March 1, 1897, to May 30, 1900 (New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1900), 158-159.

To Learn More

Alexandria National Cemetery, National Cemetery Administration

Christ Church History, Historic Christ Church

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust,(New York: Vintage Books, 2008)

Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley, from March 1, 1897, to May 30, 1900, Archive.org
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