Civil War Women - Monuments

I hope this link works, I'm on my iphone and it's more difficult for me to do. Anyway, some interesting info about early movement to build monuments to women in the South. Not all States got it done. There was no corresponding movement in the North.

https://books.google.com/books?id=X...a=X&ei=CAGPVYm5JpKYyATIjpjYAQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBw

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“Ultimately, seven of the eleven former Confederate states erected monuments to their women. South Carolina unveiled the first state monument to Confederate women on April 11, 1912. Their monument depicted an angel and two winged, cherubic children honoring a seated woman and was erected on the grounds of the new State House. North Carolina’s 1914 monument and Florida’s 1915 effort shared similar designs, featuring a seated woman reading to children the “true” history of the Civil War from an open book. Arkansas and Maryland dedicated their respective monuments in 1913 and 1918. Individual communities also erected monuments to their women. In 1934, the citizens of Wadesboro, North Carolina, dedicated a monument to the community’s Confederate women. The Wadesboro monument featured two bas relief sculptures: one panel depicted hoopskirted Southern belle sending a man off to war, and the other showed the same lady handing an infant to a stereotypical mammy figure.

The Northern states had no regional effort to specifically honor their Civil War women as a group.”

To be fair, the text goes on to describe some random efforts in the North to build monuments to Civil War women. Thanks for posting.
 
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Washington, D. C. - American Red Cross Headquarters

One of those "random efforts" of the North, from the link in the two posts above: The Headquarters Building of the American Red Cross, dedicated in 1917, was originally intended to honor the Women of the North and their sacrifices in the Civil War. Former Union General Francis C. Barlow spearheaded the original effort to honor these women, in part to honor his wife, Arabelle Barton Barlow, who died in 1864 of a fever she contracted while working as a nurse at a Union Hospital.
 
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The Civil War may have been fought by men but women played a major part in everything from acting as patriots in disguise to battlefield nursing. In the State House in Boston, this monument honors those Massachusetts nurses who served so bravely during the Civil War

A monument to Jane Delano and all of the military nurses who died during World War One stands watch over the nurses section of Arlington National Cemetery. Jane Delano was the second superintendent of Army Nurse Corps.

In 1782 when hostile Indians were attacking Fort Henry, Ohio, the troops ran out of gunpowder. Young Elizabeth Zane volunteered to fetch a keg of powder known to be in her brother's house sixty yards outside the gates of the fort. She walked past the Indians unnoticed and got the powder. On her return trip she ran through hostile fire and reached the fort in safety with the gunpowder. This statue is in the town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio and was raised in 1903 by the school children of Martin's Ferry.

...of the better known attractions of Rindge, New Hampshire is the "Cathedral of the Pines" with its "Altar of the Nations" and the Memorial Bell Tower. The Cathedral is shielded only by the towering pines, the background is a magnificent view of Mount Monadnock and the rock altar is built of stones from all of the United States. It was built in memory of Lt. Sanderson Sloane who died in combat in 1944. It is recognized by the U.S. Congress and dedicated for all American war dead. The Memorial Bell Tower is the first memorial for women who sacrificed their lives for our country

First Lt Sharon Lane
was killed by hostile fire in Viet Nam. On May 29, 1973 a statue to Sharon was dedicated in front of Aultman Hospital by the William F. Cody Garrison #50 of the Army/Navy Union. This statue was built with funds raised in the community, and is one of the first Vietnam memorials constructed in the United States. In March, 1986, Aultman Hospital opened the Sharon Lane Women's Center in its main lobby; two months later, on May 26, the Canton Chapter 199 of the Vietnam Veterans of America officially became the 'Sharon Lane Chapter #199'. There are two roads named for Sharon: one in Denver, CO; the other at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. On September 12, 1995, Fort Hood, Texas dedicated the Sharon Lane Volunteer Center. A permanent display in her honor can be seen at the Ohio Society of Military History in Massillon, Ohio

The Combined Veterans Council of Berks County is the umbrella for all the veterans organizations in Berks County, PA. In 1995, the Combined Veterans Council resolved to sponsor the Berks County Tribute to Women Veterans project. The project is in two parts. The monument, dedicated on November 7, 1999, is the physical tribute. It honors past, present and future women veterans. The history project will collect information about the women of Berks County who have served in uniform and as civilians during wartime. The purpose is to educate the community about the participation and contributions the women of Berks County have made in defense of their country.

Phyllis Dolin of Wilton Iowa has donated a memorial to honor all women veterans of the U.S. It is in the Rock Island National Cemetery on Arsenal Island, Illinois. Each side of the stone obelisk is dedicated to various branches of the military. The side shown here reads "To Honor Women of the U.S. Air Force and Army'

Ellen May Tower was the first American woman to die on foreign soil in service of this country -
in the Spanish American War - and the first woman from Michigan to be honored with a military funeral. She was buried on January 17, 1899 in Byron, Michigan. Later friends and organizations raised money to place this monument on her grave. On April 28, 1899 a post office was established near the Village of Onaway where Ellen's father lived. The local folks honored Ellen May Tower by naming the town and the post office "Tower" in remembrance of her.

New York State Women Veterans Memorial

A bronze sculpture symbolizing Liberty standing on the crown of England and breaking free from the bonds of colonization is the focal point of the New York State Women Veterans Memorial along Madison Avenue at the southern end of the Empire State Plaza in Albany.
The statue created by Glenmont artisan Hy Rosen does not represent a woman veteran, but rather is symbolic of the spirit, strength and commitment of women to defend our nation and its principles. The statue is garbed in a gown similar to that depicted on the Statue of Liberty, as well as that worn by the symbols of Justice and Liberty that are integral parts of New York's state seal and flag.
Images of women veterans from all eras of service are incorporated in two large bronze reliefs depicting the evolving history of women in military service during the past 200-plus years that will flank the statue.
The history of New York's women veterans is inscribed in text on bronze tablets, as follows:
PRIDE
*New York State women have proudly served in defense of our Nation since the Revolutionary War, despite their lack of military standing before the 1900s.
*They served in all major conflicts in ever increasing numbers, volunteering to preserve our freedom.
*They served in expanding positions of responsibility -- from laundress and cook to administrators, from medical and technical personnel to full combatants.
*New York State women contributed to establishing and maintaining our independence, preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, and advancing the cause of freedom and democracy around the world.
COURAGE
*In times of conflict, New York State women served the military as society permitted or as the situation demanded.
*The colonial revolutionary frontiers held little distinction between combatant and noncombatant.
*Women came forward to replace men as battlefield emergencies demanded and some even disguised their gender in order to serve. Others masked their identity risking their lives as couriers and intelligence agents.
*They served under hostile fire and were wounded or killed. Some were prisoners of war and others remained missing.
*Women of the New York State military forces have performed hazardous duties in civil disturbances and natural disasters.
HONOR
*New York State women have earned the highest decorations for valor and service from our State and Nation.
*They have achieved the rank of General or Admiral in both State and Federal service.
*The value of their contributions has finally been recognized by their ever-increasing integration and opportunities in the Armed Forces.
*Congress bestowed veteran status on women who served in the military during past conflicts who had not been recognized at the time of their service.
*The highest honor for New York State women veterans has been to fulfill the ultimate obligation of citizenshipƒthe willingness to make the supreme sacrifice.

There are more but I have a fracture in one of those teeny bones in my wrist. It is both fatiguing and ouchy copy/pasting. Have only used a single page out of several sources, please excuse. More out there, 18th. his one is
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/monuments.html

I chased down the monuments, some good pics of each just am unhappy using the the r/l click at the moment. In the search did find quite a few more dedication, etc to women- some pertaining to the war.

Would like to point out that North and South a good deal of fund raising went on, to funnel money to war orphans and widow. A woman from Georgia, actually, gave us the poppies- did NOT know that! Used the idea in connection to Memorial Day. Talk about a Georgia Peach! Moina Michael, forever grateful for the bazillion raised for the destitute war widows with families to support, our nation honore her- not with an expensive memorial but with a stamp! She would have hated the bejammers out of spending vast sums on a memorial. All her concerns was raising money to help familes whose men had died in the war. Living in Georgia she saw plenty of it. The funds raised benefitted ex-soldiers families no matter on which side the deceased fought.
 
Memorial to Confederate Women, Nashville, Tenn. This is the same pattern as the women's statue on the Capitol grounds in Jackson, Miss. According to the article I linked the plan was to have each former Confederate State have one of this design.

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Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843–1905) was the sister of Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Mass. and the wife Charles Russell Lowell III of the 3rd Mass. Cavalry. Both men died within 15 months of each other. Josephine served as a nurse during the war and returned to New York where she became a progressive social reformer.

Her fountain in Bryant Park is New York City's earliest major monument to a woman.

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Here's a better photo of the Nuns of the Battlefield Monument, which was created by an Irish Artist, Jerome Connor. It honored the 600 nuns who nursed men on both sides of the conflict during the Civil War. One woman who'd been a young nurse at the time, Madeleine O'Donnell, attended the dedication in 1924. It has a very special inscription which certainly applies to all the women, North and South, who served as nurses:

They comforted the dying, nursed the wounded, carried hope to the imprisoned, gave in his name a drink of water to the thirsty.

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Washington, D. C.

Explanation and photo from:

http://irishamerica.com/2013/08/hospital-nuns-from-the-civil-war-to-today/order_of_sisters_memorial/
 
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To me, this is one of the sweetest memorials to women of the Civil War.

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Butler, Ohio - Butler County Soldiers, Sailors and Pioneers Monument

Dedicated in 1906, the fundraising for the monument started in 1897. It features stained glass windows on either side commemorating women's roles in the Civil War, one with women rolling bandages and another with women nursing wounded soldiers.

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http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,10205.0.html#ixzz3eLeGfjvZ
 
Here's a better photo of the Nuns of the Battlefield Monument, which was created by an Irish Artist, Jerome Connor. It honored the 600 nuns who nursed men on both sides of the conflict during the Civil War. One woman who'd been a young nurse at the time, Madeleine O'Donnell, attended the dedication in 1924. It has a very special inscription which certainly applies to all the women, North and South, who served as nurses:

They comforted the dying, nursed the wounded, carried hope to the imprisoned, gave in his name a drink of water to the thirsty.

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Washington, D. C.

Explanation and photo from:

http://irishamerica.com/2013/08/hospital-nuns-from-the-civil-war-to-today/order_of_sisters_memorial/
Both the Thorn statue and the Nursing Nuns are also considered immigrant memorials.
 
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