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"Monumental Achievement: The Civil War and the Making of Memory""Monumental Achievement explores how our nation’s deadliest and costliest war reshaped the culture and values of our nation and gave birth to the monument industry. Prior to the Civil War, monuments commemorating great events or deeds in the life of our country were rare. After the war the supply and demand for monuments and memorials mushroomed. The Civil War was an event of cataclysmic emotional and cultural significance. It also coincided with a wave of nostalgia induced by the transformation from an agrarian to an urban industrial society. Add new technological capacities to the mix and you have a perfect convergence of factors needed to produce our most inspiring public sculpture, a wide swath of art and material culture and some of our most auspicious public buildings and landmarks, including Connecticut’s State Capitol - a “memorial hall” in all but name and a building the honors and commemorates the war like no other state capitol building in the country! This program provides an armchair tour of Civil War monuments, art and material culture in Connecticut and beyond. We will meet personalities like Hartford’s James G. Batterson, and companies like the Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee, the White Bronze Manufacturing Company in Bridgeport that became nationally renowned purveyors and pioneers in the monument industry. We will also “visit” Gettysburg and discuss the role of Civil War veterans in collecting and creating public spaces to enshrine and memorialize their accomplishments in saving the union and ending slavery."A feature length public program may be booked by contacting William Hosley at [email protected]
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Monumental Achievement:
The Civil War & the Making of American Memory
James G. Batterson
Hartford, CT Monument Maker
Soldiers & Sailors Monument, New Haven
Plans & Process
New Britain Soldiers & Sailors Monument by Ernest Flagg
Winsted Soldier Monument by George Bissell
Sculptor Artists – Augustus St. Gaudens
General George Stannard
Burlington, VT
By Karl Gerhardt
Artistic masterpieces by Augustus St. Gaudens and Frederick McMonnies
Soldiers & Sailors Arch
Hartford, CT
By George Keller
Confederate Monument
Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond, VA
New England Civil War Museum / GAR Memoral Hall
Rockville, CT
Connecticut State Capitol – A Civil War Memorial Hall
Richmond and Gettysburg / Memory Places
Gettysburg National Park – 1+ million visitors/year
History, Art & Gratitude: Memory Matters!
Monumental Achievement:
The Civil War & the Making of American Memory
by William Hosley
Terra Firma NortheastTo book a feature length presentation contact
Special thanks to the communities that preserve our sacred and historic monuments
and the museums small and large that preserve our treasures
