“The government...should have swept from its soil the first monument to rebellion, with the warning that the placing of the second would be known as treason...,” boasted Thomas E. Merchant of the 84th Pennsylvania on September 11. Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, Civil War, TWO Volumes 1893, Illus. GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The Licensed Battlefield Guides at Gettysburg are raising the alarm over a recent vote in the U. S. House of Representatives that would remove Civil War monuments … “We are heartily in favor of marking the Rebel lines but we want the Government to do that work[,] not Rebels,” Shook told Bachelder on November 5. We don’t propose to have that.”The Patterson protest was eventually unsuccessful, and the Marylanders’ monument still stands. The bill was defeated. $29.99 0 bids + $5.98 shipping . Eighteen years later, the Pennsylvania Legislature appropriated $150,000 for construction of a state memorial, and the current site was announced in February 1909.Humphreys Avenue, along the east side of the memorial, was not surveyed until 1911, so materials were delivered by railroad, via the The memorial was unfinished when it was dedicated on September 27, 1910, and the project was out of money. “No monument to treason should have been permitted a place on this or [any] other field, and being here should be returned to the donors, not to be erected elsewhere.”A little more than one month later, on October 22, Post 88 of the Grand Army of the Republic (based in Allegheny City, part of Pittsburgh today) filed a petition that claimed the Maryland monument commemorates “the disloyal deeds of said rebel regiment” and likely created an “example” that makes “treason honorable.” On October 24, the This G.A.R.
posts across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions endorsed the Patterson chapter’s policy and likewise petitioned for the monument’s removal. In turn, Post 88 doubled down via the press.
“As soldiers and citizens we have no apologies to make for calling words by their proper names, ‘traitor’ a traitor and ‘rebel’ a rebel...,” a Patterson resolution stated in the October 31 edition of the Meanwhile, scores of veterans mailed letters to the Gettysburg Government Historian, John Bachelder, representing views from all points on the spectrum. Post 88 resolution was of Oct. 22, 1889, was reprinted two days later in the Pittsburg Dispatch. “You know that they do not care for history[. Now, in “our demonstration” at the dedication of a monument at Gettysburg, the rebellion’s most famous battlefield, “We can show that we have power; and power always compels respect,” Johnson shrewdly determined.Almost immediately, the marker was the subject of criticism by locals like former abolitionist David Buehler, who, as a board member for the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, felt that the Marylanders were simply trying “to magnify, as something grand & heroic,” their contribution to the battle. Ultimately, only four more memorials were ever personally dedicated by Confederate veterans on the Gettysburg battlefield.Now, 130 years after the events of 1889, the records left behind by the G.A.R. … (Chronicling America)John Bachelder, the Government Historian of the Battle of Gettysburg, found himself squarely at the center of the Confederate monument debate of the 1880s and 1890s, around the time this photo was taken of he and his wife. & Co., 1907, Author's Collection)The Abe Patterson G.A.R. chapter’s stance. $4.99 0 bids + $5.45 shipping . chapter, named for fallen Pennsylvania veteran Abe Patterson, was self-avowedly “composed of men who gave their best service in defense of the flag,...many of whom shed their blood on the battlefield of Gettysburg.” As such, the Pittsburghers resolved that they “desire to enter their solemn protest against this sacrilege and most emphatically denounce any such intrusion upon sacred soil; and ask that the Gettysburg Battlefield [Memorial] Association...cause the said rebel monument to be removed, and express orders given that no more of that nature be erected.”Specifically, Post 88 called upon “our worthy Governor and comrade, Hon. (A.C.B. Gettysburg veterans seated on the terrace wall, 50th anniversary of the battle, July 1913. Unsurprisingly, on the other hand, reconciliation-minded individuals, political and social conservatives, former Confederates, and Southern sympathizers opposed the suggestion.
Nevertheless, the Pittsburghers’ vocal resolutions caused many people in the late-19th century to consider the ramifications of a Confederate memorial at a traditionally Union park, at a time when the propriety of Rebel monuments was very much up in the air.
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