The American Civil War: Who Should Memorials Honor?
March 07, 2013
Civil War memorial trees
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC.
I’m June Simms.
On the show today, we hear music from some of the performers at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
We talk about efforts to remember the many Americans killed in the nation’s Civil War in the 1860s. And we tell about efforts against some of the Civil War memorials that already exist.
Civil War Trees
The Civil War was the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. From 1861 to 1865, at least 620,000 soldiers died in the fighting. It began after several southern states broke away from the North, mainly over the issue of slavery. The southern states declared independence and set up the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy.
Now, 150 years later, a living memorial is being created to honor the war dead. Jim Tedder has more on the project.
The non-profit group Journey through Hallowed Ground is leading the effort. It plans to plant a tree, or recognize an existing tree, for each soldier killed in the war. The memorial will come to life along an almost 300 hundred kilometer road that passes through four states. It will start in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where the most famous Civil War battle took place. It will end at the Charlottesville, Virginia, home of Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president.
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