Additional Resources

The books, archival materials, and websites below were utilized in the crafting of this online exhibition.  

 

Online Materials

Bannos, Pamela.  Hidden Truths: Chicago City Cemetery and Lincoln Parkhttp://hiddentruths.northwestern.edu/home.html.

Illinois State Archives.  Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rollshttp://cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/datcivil.html

Mount Auburn Cemetery.  Mount Auburn Cemeteryhttp://www.mountauburn.org/.

National Park Service.  Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Servedhttp://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/national_cemeteries/index.html.

National Park Service.  The Civil Warhttp://www.nps.gov/civilwar/index.htm.

United States Department of Veterans Affairs.  History of Government Furnished Headstones and Markershttp://www.cem.va.gov/hist/hmhist.asp.


Secondary Source Materials 

Bach, Ira J., and Mary Lackritz Gray. A Guide to Chicago’s Public Sculpture.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Bernstein, Arnie. The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago’s Civil War Connections. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2003.

Blair, William.  Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina:  The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Fahs, Alice and Joan Waugh, eds.  The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina:  The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Hicke, Matt, and Ursula Bielski. Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook Country Cemeteries. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 1999.

Gillon, Edmund.  Victorian Cemetery Art.  New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1972.

Keister, Douglas.  Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography. Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2004.

Meyer, Richard.  Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture.  Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1989. 

Mills, Cynthia and Pamela H. Simpson, eds.  Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory.  Knoxville, Tennessee:  The University of Tennessee Press, 2003.

Neff, John.  Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of ReconciliationLawrence, Kansas:  University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Piehler, G. Kurt.  Remembering War the American Way.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. 

Rutherford, Sarah.  The Victorian Cemetery.  Oxford, United Kingdom: Shire Publication, 2010.

Savage, Kirk. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.


Newspaper Materials

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Defender

Chicago Sun Times

 

Archival Materials in the Chicago History Museum Collection

Charter, Rules and Regulations of the Rosehill Cemetery.  Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery Company, 1860.

Charter, By-laws, and Rules and Regulations of the Rosehill Cemetery.  Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery Company, 1877. 

Charter, By-laws, and Rules and Regulations of the Rosehill Cemetery.  Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery Company, 1897.

Description and Dedication of the Rosehill Cemetery. Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery Company, 1883. 

McGann, Tom.  Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery: Rooted in the Past, It Looks to the Future. Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, 1988.

Rosehill, the Beautiful.  Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, 1934.

Rosehill, the Beautiful: A Memorial Park Whose Beauty and Natural Environment are Unequaled.  Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery Company, 1908.

Visitors Guide to Historic Rosehill.  Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, 1987.

Wendell, David.  The Civil War at Rosehill.  Chicago: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, undated.