Union monuments, Gettysburg

Cox: “I want to reflect on what was said about this monument arms race. I remember that being a comment about Shiloh Battlefield and about how there had been all these monuments to Union soldiers. And the udc in that area wanted to do something, and they couldn’t put up the numbers, but they could raise enough money to build one big one that would outshine the rest. And so that’s what they did. And that one is a kind of interesting, because it’s a national landmark. Gallagher: It’s very interesting. They complained the same way at Gettysburg. Gettysburg has nearly fifteen hundred monuments, and the overwhelming majority are Union. Many regimentals, but the Confederate states put up their big monuments there, and the latest was . . . Mississippi and Alabama, Louisiana in the seventies”(38).