"Ever Present Bone of Contention"

[Civilwarcrow]

An "Ever Present Bone of Contention":
The Heyward Shepherd Memorial
By Mary Johnson
http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh56-1.html

 

[cash]

An "Ever Present Bone of Contention":
The Heyward Shepherd Memorial
By Mary Johnson
http://www.wvculture.org/history/journal_wvh/wvh56-1.html

The Heyward Shepherd Memorial and the NPS interpretive marker next to it represent a contest for the memory of the Harpers Ferry Raid.

The contested memory is discussed in Chapter 2 of John Christian Spielvogel's book, Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields.

http://studycivilwar.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/interpreting-sacred-ground-chapter-two/

 

[Civilwarcrow]

The Heyward Shepherd Memorial and the NPS interpretive marker next to it represent a contest for the memory of the Harpers Ferry Raid.

The contested memory is discussed in Chapter 2 of John Christian Spielvogel's book, Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields.

http://studycivilwar.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/interpreting-sacred-ground-chapter-two/

http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=10482

 

[godofredus]

Fascinating stuff. BUT I can't find anything about Heyward Sheperd (or Hayward - I've seen it spelled both ways) beyond that he was free man who worked for the B & O. No details about the real man? No one has dug in to find out what he was like? Since he was free, and Virginia required free blacks to register themselves (I think every three years) he should have a paper trail someplace?

 

[Civilwarcrow]

Fascinating stuff. BUT I can't find anything about Heyward Sheperd (or Hayward - I've seen it spelled both ways) beyond that he was free man who worked for the B & O. No details about the real man? No one has dug in to find out what he was like? Since he was free, and Virginia required free blacks to register themselves (I think every three years) he should have a paper trail someplace?

No one really much cares about pawns...Seems to just have been a hard working fellow made famous by John Brown's raid..