Hollywood Cemetery: The Treatment of Post-War Confederate Dead

[@WilliamNast-v1g]

This beautiful lady gives a flawless presentation. Very informative!

[@loismacmillan5626]

Fantastic video and helps me teach my students! Thank you "The American Civil War Museum"!!!

[@MamaPinks]

I found the Hollywood Cemetery after buying the book, "The Ghosts of Richmond" in the airport after a visit from Vermont for a NASCAR race back in the late 90s. When I had a chance to drive through the area, in the mid-2000s, (driving my way to Florida) I stopped at Hollywood to give myself a tour. I fell in love with the property. The respect people showed their dead in the 1800s is amazing. The artwork is mind-blowing. I fell in love with the Brown Family Angel. I saw her from my car and just stopped and stared. I took several photos of her and got some of the best photography from that angel alone and along with many others in the cemetery. (I'm an amateur) I've always wanted to publish her but never asked for permission from the Brown family. I think of her often. So much emotion that I had never felt before, from a statue. She is breathtaking, she had called to me. This was a beautifully crafted video, I'm glad it popped into my algorithm today. Thank you. 😊

[@GuyjKite]

Interesting video. I live in Winchester VA . The old cemetery on Lynchburg VA. Is interesting and rich in history.

[@italadamwest]

Very nice video. Well presented and informative. Thank you!

[@ArmenianBishop]

Flowers on Graves Sites seems pretty innocent to me -- just saying.

[@RobertRoser-h7c]

The Ironworks in Richmond was called Tredegar for the town and ironworks in Wales. Don't know if you noticed the first group of graves as you enter Hollywood were all from Tredegar, Wales,

[@dwseawell]

The presentation seems to say that moving Confederate graves to Richmond was somehow divisive -even treasonous. The the presentation cites a Chicago Newspaper article. It is certainly true that that paper would not have an axe to grind with the South. I think that the contention that the Hollywood Lady's action emanated from a spirit of pure animus is a fantastic explication. It just occurred to me that some might misunderstand my meaning of "fantastic." I mean it is absurd. This isn't to disparage the pretty lady presenting it. I applaud her fervor for history, however, Is it not just as reasonable that the families wanted their dead brought home? I can visit my great grandmother's grave near her home in North Carolina, but if I want to visit my great grandfather's grave, as I am sure she would have liked-she didn't die until 1911, I have to travel to Elmyra, New York. I have yet to find another ancestor's grave. Our family only knows that he is buried somewhere in Maryland, on the road from Sharpsburg. I commend the devotion of those ladies of Richmond who sacrificed time and money to bring their kinsmen home.

[@waynesigmon5628]

I was there during the grand opening the White House of the Confederacy I went to the Hollywood Cemetery I was a member of the Museum of the Confederacy 1988

[@janiefox3458]

There are 2468 Confederate soldiers buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown Maryland - from the battle of Antietam and South Mountain.

[@stephenburns3678]

Well researched. Thank you.

[@bills6963]

Terrific information and presentation!

[@therealtoni]

great educational presentation.

[@galndixie]

Just FYI: Obelisks weren't necessarily 'Confederate Monuments' in cemeteries. Many prominent or well-to-do persons, whether soldiers or not, had obelisks on their graves, it was the tradition of the time. If you take a look around that cemetery, you'll see hundreds of them, and most are not in the Confederate Sections.

[@marks1638]

Visited several years ago. It's a very interesting cemetery (but bring a map or you'll get lost.).

[@dwseawell]

I would commend to you the Confederate graveyard in Marietta, Georgia. It lies in close proximity to the Union graveyard. Walking among those stones, and reading names of men long forgotten - from both North and South, whose lives were abbreviated far to early, is sobering.

[@williamminamoto.7535]

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[@DD-th2bd]

Interesting documentary and Hollywood Cemetery is such a historical place. Some things I disagree with in the documentary and some things I agree with.

[@scasey1960]

Celebratory? Is that different from honor?

[@JohnMcGlothlin-l7j]

She did a good job except that she's obviously imposing a rather 'woke' view of everything with any relation to the Confederacy. It's not all about the Lost Cause or rejection of reconciliation (e.g. look into the 1913 Gettysburg reunion). I wouldn't have been too surprised if somewhere toward the end she suggested maybe removing some monuments.

[@fredcloud9668]

Just had to ruin it by putting your spin on your presentation.

[@platform15gym]

Nice presentation, but unfortunately ventured too close to politics to give it a like

[@douglasturner6153]

I thought this was going to be a simple factual history. Why all the biased political spin?

[@michaelbedinger4121]

I read some of the commentary before watching the video. Good presentation, maybe a little politically biased, 😅 but I can laugh at that. Public opinion over the subject of confederate monuments, graves, etc, has changed over the last several years. Public opinion may be totally different from what it is today, in about 40-50 years, you never know. That war has been over for about 160 years. Getting worked up over the subject of confederates being traitors, or the lost cause theory is pointless and stupid, considering the many other much more pressing problems in our country, that people should be concerning themselves with, not this other b.s. It must be a sign of the times, that people are acting this crazy about the subject. 😮 Time to put this entire subject behind us, and move on.....

[@petef.1601]

I understand burying the dead, but a monument (pyramid) to southern soldiers who were traitors? I don't think so. The pyramid should be demolished and erased like the cause itself. Hate has no place in our union.

[@marks1638]

This monument wasn't built to justify the Confederacy or celebrate Confederate victories (like many later monuments). It was built purely for remembrance of the unknown dead to give people who lost loved ones in the war something to remember their lost loved ones. The US more so than most countries is obsessive about recovering and identifying its war dead. The Civil War was the catalyst for that mindset, with nearly 40 percent of all soldiers who died during the war (and an even higher ratio among the Confederate soldiers) being unidentified. That's means many families (on both sides) had no body to bury, no place to mourn their dead, and no way to know what happened to their loved ones. So, let's leave the pyramid alone and leave the unknown dead in peace.

[@scott1395]

If you didn't live in that time, there's no way you or anyone else can understand the mindset and culture of a people! The average confederate fought in the war because regardless of why it started if they didn't fight they would have been called cowards and such! It still amazes me how people today can fully judge something the happened 150 years ago with a modern thought process! Yes I'm a southerner and I'm glad the south lost the war and slavery was ended but you have to get into the history of the time! There were many things that happened by way of the Lincoln administration the help set the civil war off! Gen Longstreet said : we should have freed the slaves and then fired on ft Sumpter! We southerners still honor our confederate dead for fighting for what they believed at the time to be a just cause! Slavery was not anywhere near the primary cause, it was more about states rights free from an overbearing federal government, they same thing we see today in many ways!

[@petef.1601]

@@scott1395 Longstreet said they should have freed the slaves first so england would help with their Navy. Nothing to do with slaves. As far as living in that time, I agree. People who fought and died protecting our union also referred to the southern soldiers as traitors. These states succeeded for states rights to keep slaves and expand slavery in the new states.

[@petef.1601]

@@marks1638 we don't celebrate traitors no matter who or when they died. Domestic traitors have no special place over any other enemy that tried to end our democracy. Just traitors.

[@marks1638]

@@petef.1601 Everybody deserves to remember their dead. Whether it's the German dead of the two World Wars, the Japanese dead in WWII, or the Confederate dead in our American Civil War. Them being on the losing side doesn't mean you get to piss on their graves. The families of the dead from that war (Union or Confederate, North or South, Slave or Free) deserve to remember their dead. The monument wasn't a celebration of the war, but a remembrance of the loss of their loved ones buried in an unknown grave. PS, not everyone in the South agreed with slavery, just like many in the North (Copperheads) opposed the war and supported the Confederacy (and Slavery).