Class Year
2015
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
11-21-2014
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
In conversation with other CWI Fellows last week, we began discussing the strangeness of the annual Remembrance Day Parade. Originally conceived as a way to recreate the procession to the cemetery in 1863 to hear the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldier’s National Cemetery, it seems to have morphed into something different all together. If we are honoring a recommitment to the preservation of Union, why do Confederate reenactors march in the parade? If we are simply celebrating the soldiers of both sides of the Civil War, why does the parade end at the site of the address that rededicated the nation to Union emancipationist victory and a “new birth of freedom?” [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Johnson, S. Marianne, "Remembrance Day…But Remembering What?" (2014). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 77.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/77
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