References

  1. Proceedings at the Dedication of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Providence (Providence, RI: A. Crawford Greene, Printer of the State, 1871), 20, HathiTrust, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t2z321h5c&view=1up&seq=2&skin=2021.
  2. Renée Ater, "Female Allegory, Race, and the Civil War Memorial," in Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, ed. Andrew Eschelbacher (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in 2023), 7.
  3. Report of the Committee on a Monument to the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors, Who Perished Suppressing the Rebellion Made to the General Assembly at its January Session, 1867 (Providence: Providence Press Co., 1867), 8.
  4. Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 232.
  5. David W. Blight, “If You Don’t Tell It Like It Was, It Can Never Be as It Ought to Be,” in Slavery and Public History: The Stuff of American Memory (UNC Press, 2006), 22.
  6. “Laurel,” Symbols Project, https://symbolsproject.eu/explore/plants-and-vegetations/laurel.aspx
  7. “Olive (Branch),” Symbols Project, https://symbolsproject.eu/explore/plants-and-vegetations/olive-branch.aspx
  8. “Horn of Plenty/ Cornucopia,” Symbols Project, https://symbolsproject.eu/explore/plants-and-vegetations/horn-of-plenty-/-cornucopia.aspx
  9.  Savage, Standing Soldiers, 86.
  10. Proceedings at the Dedication, 18.
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