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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Allendale Townhship Civil War Monument (Allendale, Michigan)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The statue features two generic Union and Confederate soldiers standing back-to-back with a crouching enslaved child underneath them. This child is holding a pamphlet granting emancipation. The Union soldier holds a United States flag while the Confederate soldier holds a Confederate flag. The Confederate soldier’s body is cracked, and nose is chipped. The statue is maintained by the township and paid for by taxpayer money. It was one of eight statues erected in celebration of Allendale townships' 150th birthday in 1998, located in the Veteran’s Garden of Honor. Recently, the monument has received much controversy since 2020 and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[1998-07-05]]></dcterms:issued>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Gretasporcich]]></dcterms:contributor>
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    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Blight, David, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge and London, 2001), p. 259. 
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge and London, 2001). 

Center, Patrick. ‘The history of Allendale’s controversial Civil War statue’, WGVU News, 30 June 2020, https://www.wgvunews.org/news/2020-06-30/the-history-of-allendales-controversial-civil-war-statue.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi, ‘Why So Few Blacks Study the Civil War’, The Atlantic (November, 2011), pp. 142-146.

Donnelly, Francis, ‘West Michigan War Statue: Celebrating slavery’s end or racist?’, The Detroit News, 21 July 2020, https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/07/21/west-michigan-civil-war-statue-racist-celebrating-slaverys-end/5443450002/. 

Kransz, Michael, ‘Controversial Confederate soldier statue in West Michigan will remain, township board decides’, MLive Media Group, 14 June 2021, https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2021/06/controversial-confederate-soldier-statue-in-west-michigan-will-remain-township-board-decides.html. 

Levin, Kevin, ‘The Problem With Allendale, Michigan’s Civil War Monument’, Kevin Levin (blog), 1 December 2023, https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-allendale-michigans. 

Lobo, Arpan, ‘Lawsuit: Allendale Violated Free Speech of Pro-Racial Justice Residents’, The Holland Sentinel, 8 December 2021, https://eu.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/politics/government/2021/12/08/lawsuit-allendale-violated-free-speech-pro-racial-justice-residents/6415735001/#:~:text=GRAND%20RAPIDS%20—%20A%20federal%20lawsuit,the%20township's%20Garden%20of%20Honor.

Lobo, Arpan, ‘Activists Put Up Billboard Calling for Allendale Statue’s Removal’, The Holland Sentinel, 5 January 2021, https://eu.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/politics/county/2021/01/05/activists-put-up-billboard-calling-for-allendale-statuersquos-removal/43310213/. 

‘Allendale Charter Township Historical Recognition and Preservation Plan’, 2004, <https://www.gvsu.edu/anthropology/adc/files/document/F3CB1DE2-0B3E-7C9F-CBB16D0944CF8FAC.pdf>. 

‘It’s Time for Allendale to Remove its Confederate Statue’, Allendale for Equality, accessed 10 February 2024, https://allendaleforequality.org/#:~:text=About%20Allendale%27s%20Confederate%20Statue,States%20veterans%20from%20multiple%20wars.
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    <dcterms:rightsHolder><![CDATA[Joyce Sweers]]></dcterms:rightsHolder>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Harriet Tubman National Historical Park]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Harriet Tubman National Historical Park is located in Auburn, New York, and offers visitors the opportunity to move around in and interact with a physical space featuring important sites in Tubman's life. The site – partly privately owned, partly owned by the National Park Service – includes Thompson AME Zion Church, the Harriet Tubman Home, and the Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged. The Fort Hill Cemetery, with Tubman's grave, is also nearby, though not technically part of the park. While the property had been a public park for decades, it wasn't designated a national historical park until January 10, 2017. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[January 10, 2017]]></dcterms:issued>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Caroline Scott]]></dcterms:contributor>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[St Paul Soldiers and Sailors Monument (St Paul, Minnesota)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The St Paul Soldiers and Sailors Monument honours United States veterans of the Civil War and their victories for the union and abolition of slavery. The statue depicts Josias R. King, said to be the first Minnesotan to volunteer to fight for the union and is sculpted out of Vermont marble. The statue features King standing and holding a rifle and has a distinct backdrop of the Cathedral of St Paul. The statue is maintained and funded for by the city of St. Paul and has undergone multiple restorations. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1903-01-01]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:created><![CDATA[1897-01-01]]></dcterms:created>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[1903-11-20]]></dcterms:issued>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Gretasporcich]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[0m x 0m x NaNm]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[DeCarlo, Peter J., ‘The complicated history of St Paul’s Soldiers and Sailors Memorial’, MinnPost, 23 June 2020, https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2020/06/the-complicated-history-of-st-pauls-soldiers-and-sailors-memorial/. 

DeCarlo, Peter J., ‘Soldiers and Sailors Memorial, St Paul’, MNOpedia, last modified 3 March 2022, https://www.mnopedia.org/thing/soldiers-and-sailors-memorial-st-paul. 

Ringham, Eric, ‘Massacre clouds story of the soldier on Minnesota’s pedestal’, MPR News, 27 September 2018, https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/09/27/iconic-minnesota-soldier-part-of-atrocity. 
Sepic, Matt, ‘Amid debate over Civil War statues, Minn. restores monument to first volunteer soldier’, 18 August 2017, https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/08/18/restorers-preserve-monument-minnesota-civil-war-regular-soldier. 

‘Soldiers and Sailors Memorial’, Historic Twin Cities, 28 January 2019, http://www.historictwincities.com/2019/01/28/soldiers-and-sailors-memorial/. 

‘Soldiers and Sailors Monument’, St Paul Minnesota, accessed 10 February 2024, https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/recreation-centers/parks-recreation-programs/public-art/soldiers. 

‘St. Paul Civil War Memorial’, The Historical Marker Database, accessed 10 February 2024, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=231550. 
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    <dcterms:rightsHolder><![CDATA[John K. Daniels (face of the statue)]]></dcterms:rightsHolder>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://civilwarmonuments.org/omeka/items/show/2819">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Lawrence Sullivan Birthplace Marker (Bentonsport, Iowa)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The Lawrence Sullivan Birthplace Marker remembers Civil War veteran, Lawrence Sullivan. Sullivan was born in Iowa and lived there for the first year of his life before moving with his family to Texas and eventually fighting for the Confederacy. Sullivan’s unique upbringing makes him Iowa’s only Confederate general. The marker is located along the Des Moines River in a park. It is a stone boulder, with a bronze plaque describing Sullivan’s life and accomplishments. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[2007-09-22]]></dcterms:issued>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[Gretasporcich]]></dcterms:contributor>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[m x m x m]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:medium><![CDATA[Benner, Judith Ann, ‘Ross, Lawrence Sullivan [Sul] (1838-1898)’, Texas State Historical Association, accessed 15 February 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ross-lawrence-sullivan-sul. 

Munson, Kyle, “Stupid liberals’ vs. white privilege: Iowa caught up in Confederate monuments debate’, The Des Moines Register, 25 August 2017, https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/08/25/americas-civil-war-over-confederate-monuments-takes-root-iowa/588650001/. 

Patterson, Buddy, ‘A Brief History’, Sons of Confederate Veterans Texas Division, accessed 13 April 2024, https://scvtexas.org/about/. 

‘Bentonsport Rose Garden’, Villages of Van Buren County, accessed 15 February 2024, https://villagesofvanburen.com/directory.html?item=1577. 

‘Iowa’s Confederate General’, The Historical Marker Database, 19 November 2019, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=2565. 

‘Lawrence Sullivan Ross’, Wikipedia, accessed 15 February 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Sullivan_Ross#Legacy. 

‘Whose Heritage?’, Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed 12 April 2024, https://www.splcenter.org/whose-heritage. 
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[First Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia) ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[1867-09-26]]></dcterms:issued>
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    <dcterms:rightsHolder><![CDATA[Gaddes Brothers of Baltimore, MD ]]></dcterms:rightsHolder>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Shepherdstown Memorial to the Confederate Dead]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[1870-06-06]]></dcterms:issued>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Charles Town Memorial to the Confederate Dead ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[1871-04-26]]></dcterms:issued>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Wheeling, West Virginia) ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This monument features a central pediment with the angel of liberty (dressed in a robe, carrying a shield in her right arm and a sword in her left) and two seated soldiers, one on the west side of the pedestal and the other on the east side. The West Virginia seal and state motto 'Montani Semper Liberi' are engraved at the base of the angel's feet. 'To the Defenders of the Union 1861-1865' is inscribed at the base of the statue. The front side of the pedestal (atop the base) lists seven major Civil War Battles such as Rich Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Cloyd Mountain, Opequan and Appomattox. The back side of the pedestal is engraved with the text: 'They counted not their lives dear unto them.']]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1880-01-01]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[1883-05-30]]></dcterms:issued>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[2479]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[To The Perpetual Memory (New Cumberland, West Virginia)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This monument features at its apex a Union soldier holding the barrel of a rifle (which is pointed downwards) with both hands. The soldier stands upon a pedestal accented with swag-drapery and two ribboned laurel crowns hanging on either side, under which is engraved the name ‘W.A. Atkinson’.
In the centre of the pedestal’s front panel is a large engraving of the Grand Army of the Republic badge, worn by the members of the Union Army Veterans’ organisation. The design of the badge consists of three parts; first, an eagle with its wings spread holding a sword in its talons above two cannons and nine stacked cannonballs. Second, an American flag-style ribbon draped beneath the eagle and cannons. Lastly, the G.A.R. medal in the shape of a fine-pointed star depicting the goddess of liberty, a soldier and a sailor clasping hands, with two children kneeling below them. In the star points are the emblems for different branches of service: an anchor for sailors, a bugle for infantry, swords for cavalry, cannons for artillery and muskets for marines. The base of the pedestal is marked ‘Post No. 18 Dep’t W. VA.’ 
The tier below the pedestal is a structure with a roof-top pediment marked ‘Appomattox’, supposedly in reference to the 1865 Appomattox Court House Battle. In a recessed panel beneath the pediment, a bronze plaque engraved with the text ‘Yet Loved Ones Have Fallen…’. Finally, at the base of the tier is the inscription dedicated to the ‘Perpetual Memory Of The Defenders Of The Union, 1861 - 1865. Erected By The Citizens of Hancock Co., May 30th 1886.’]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[1886-05-30]]></dcterms:issued>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Valley Mountain Confederate Monument]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This small monumental cross commemorates the fallen Confederate soldiers of the 1861 Battle of Cheat Mountain. The monument sits atop Valley Mountain, where Confederate forces were gathered. It was unveiled in July 1902 before a procession of foot- and mounted men, clergymen, a marching band from Marlinton and an audience of roughly 2,000 civilians. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:issued><![CDATA[1902-07-17]]></dcterms:issued>
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