Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861-2015

by Timothy B. Smith

In the century and a half since the Civil War, various entities, both private and public, have earnestly sought to safeguard the legacy of that seismic conflict through the preservation of its battlefields. In Altogether Fitting and Proper--a title taken from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address--Timothy B. Smith provides the most comprehensive synthesis ever written of the long, often fraught history of those preservation efforts, which began even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621903117
• ISBN13: 9781621903116
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"