Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts monument,
Resource addedBrundage: “Well, just partially, but what I was going to say is white
southerners knew they were losing the commemorative battle.
Most people don’t pay attention to the fact that Washington,
D.C., is an enormous shrine to Union generals. There are big,
beautiful, impressive monuments to Union generals all over
the city. If you stack up the Confederate memorials across the
South against Union memorials . . . and the Union cause always
has Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts monument
in Boston, which trumps anything. The Confederate
monuments often pale by comparison"(35-36).
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