On November 19, 1886—the 23rd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address—veterans of the Second Maryland Infantry (originally known as the First Maryland Battalion) dedicated their regimental memorial on Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg. In so doing, they created the first Confederate monument ever erected at America’s most famous battlefield, causing many former United States soldiers to protest what they saw as a symbol that represented everything against which they fought in 1863.
Join Codie Eash as he recounts the inception, dedication, and reception of this controversial occurrence—an early chapter in America’s ever-present national debate over the memory, iconography, and monumentation of the Confederacy and the Civil War.
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