"These honored dead": the national cemetery system and the politics of cultural memory since 1861
In 1861, the U.S. Congress, responding to the growing number of Civil War dead, passed legislation regulating the burial practices of the Union Army. Six years later, the legislative body established a government-administered national cemetery system (NCS) that only interred Union soldiers killed in...
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University of Iowa
2015
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Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6660 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8159&context=etd |