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Of the four Civil War veterans cast in bronze at the Capitol, only Gen. Alexander Wilkin died in battle. He was the highest-ranking Minnesota officer to perish in the Civil War. He died while he was supposed to be in reserve in Tupelo, Mississippi. Confederate officer Nathan Bedford Forrest was raiding heavily in middle Tennessee at the time.
American Civil War prison camp survivor, author unknown (restored by Jujutacular) Andersonville Prison , by John L. Ransom (restored by Jujutacular ) John F. Reynolds , by Alfred Rudolph Waud (edited by Jujutacular and Papa Lima Whiskey )
The Civil War has been commemorated in many capacities, ranging from the reenactment of battles to statues and memorial halls erected, films, stamps and coins with Civil War themes being issued, all of which helped to shape public memory. These commemorations occurred in greater numbers on the 100th and 150th anniversaries of the war. [309]
The Cross of Honor is in the form of a cross pattée suspended from a metal bar with space for engraving. It has no cloth ribbon. The obverse displays the Confederate battle flag placed on the center thereof surrounded by a wreath, with the inscription UNITED DAUGHTERS [of the] CONFEDERACY TO THE U. C. V. (the UCV is the United Confederate Veterans) on the four arms of the cross.
The Peacemakers is an 1868 painting by George P.A. Healy.It depicts the historic March 27, 1865, strategy session by the Union high command on the steamer River Queen during the final days of the American Civil War. [1]