Honoring US Civil War Dead
November 22, 2012
A Civil War-era cannon on Maryland's Antietam National Battlefield Park. (Credit: Joe De Capua)
As the U.S. commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, a new project is underway to honor the more than 620-thousand soldiers who died in the conflict. It’s called the Living Legacy Project.
Cate Magennis Wyatt said Americans must not lose their sense of history.
“You can’t erase our past. We can’t just take for granted that the stories of those who came before us will be remembered. And if you lose the beginning of your story, you certainly have a much more difficult time bringing the original ideals of America to fruition,” she said.
Magennis Wyatt is founder and president of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership.
Cate Magennis Wyatt, founder and president of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership. Credit: JTHG
She said, “The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership is a non-profit organization that we created in 2005 to raise awareness of the unparalleled history, heritage and culture that’s found in the swath of land from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania down through Maryland and culminating at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Virginia.”
Monticello is the name of the home of the third U.S. president.
Magennis Wyatt said the nearly 290 kilometer, or 180 mile, stretch of land is like no other.
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