Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (Timothy B. Smith - WH) rooster Jon Meacham

Jon Meacham

makes stops at Seminary Ridge

in an attempt to exonerate Lee

ANNE MOSELEY

Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (Timothy B. Smith - WH) rooster Jon Meachamby Timothy B. Smith In the century and a half since the Civil War, various entities, both private and public, have earnestly sought to safeguard the legacy of that seismic conflict through the preservation of its battlefields. In Altogether Fitting and Propera title taken from Lincolns Gettysburg AddressTimothy B. Smith provides the most comprehensive synthesis ever written of the long, often fraught history of those preservation efforts, which began