Beth Erickson explains
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“These trees will be able to have a number associated with a person. They can use GPS technology to be able to find out who these people were.”
Eleanor Adams has donated a tree in honor of her ancestor Joseph McGowan. He was from Alabama and fought for the South. He was 23 when he was shot and killed. Eleanor Adams says the young soldier wrote letters to his family about life on the battlefield.
“He talks about sickness, the heat in the summertime, the bad food – really a tough time being a soldier in those days.”
She says she hopes other family members will join her in planting trees for other McGowans who died in the Civil War.
Civil War Parks in the South
Other memorials to Civil War forces are currently a subject of dispute. Like parks named after Confederate soldiers.
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a famous fighter for the Confederacy. A park in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, has a statue of him sitting on a horse. The park is named in honor of Forrest, whom many southerners have praised for his defense of the South in the Civil War. Others have criticized his slave-trading past and ties to the secretive Ku Klux Klan.
Nathan Bedford Forrest Park in Memphis Tennesee
Earlier this week, the Memphis City Council voted to remove Forrest’s name from the park and call it Health Sciences Park. Council members also voted to rename Confederate Park as Memphis Park, and Jefferson Davis Park as Mississippi River Park. The latter was named for a leader of the Confederacy.
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