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Foreword / David W. Blight
Introduction / Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White
A Hollywood grave / Glenn W. LaFantasie
D. A. Rock : Gettysburg's first headstone / Timothy J. Orr
Graves forgotten and found / Edward L. Ayers
A Life on his own terms : Albert D.J. Cashier, 95th Illinois Infantry / DeAnne Blanton
Encounters with the Monitor Boys / Anna Gibson Holloway
Twenty men, dead in the Stono / Michael Vorenberg
"Durable stone" : veterans' headstones and the legacy of the Civil War / Barbara A. Gannon
The bones of Morris and Folly / Douglas R. Egerton
Granite remnants left along the Delaware: the Shohola railroad calamity / Michael P. Gray
"That derogatory rock" : The contested memory of the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota in Mankato, Minnesota / Melodie Andrews
Confederate tombs on Brazilian soil : a trip, a cemetery, and a nexus of confusion / Vitor Izecksohn
The University of Virginia cemetery / Caroline E. Janney
"A martyr in the cause of liberty" : the death and burial of John Rodgers Meigs / Barton A. Myers
The grave of Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Virginia / Allen C. Guelzo
Ulysses S. Grant : a monumental undertaking / Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
Gabriel Colvin Wharton / William C. Davis
"A wonderful tenacity of life": Old Baldy, George Meade's veteran warhorse / Jennifer M. Murray
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : "hero of Little Round Top" / Ronald C. White
"I stood before his silent grave" : John Albion Andrew, the soul of a champion / Stephen D. Engle
"For his father's sake" : the grave of Joseph Evan Davis / John M. Coski
A lost child: James Hutchison Stanton / Walter Stahr
Not-so-final resting places : grave reflections on the historical reputation of Elizabeth Keckly / Michelle A. Krowl
Reflections on the gravestone of William H. Johnson / Michael Burlingame
The slave cemetery and apology marker at the University of Alabama / Hilary Green
"Let the son of a bitch die" : an abandoned graveyard reveals a sad story of murder / Dana B. Shoaf
Civil War gothic : the gravestones of William Barclay Napton and Melinda Williams Napton / Christopher Phillips
John Wilkes Booth's death and burials / Terry Alford
Of graves and the color line / Mark S. Schantz.
Introduction / Brian Matthew Jordan and Jonathan W. White
A Hollywood grave / Glenn W. LaFantasie
D. A. Rock : Gettysburg's first headstone / Timothy J. Orr
Graves forgotten and found / Edward L. Ayers
A Life on his own terms : Albert D.J. Cashier, 95th Illinois Infantry / DeAnne Blanton
Encounters with the Monitor Boys / Anna Gibson Holloway
Twenty men, dead in the Stono / Michael Vorenberg
"Durable stone" : veterans' headstones and the legacy of the Civil War / Barbara A. Gannon
The bones of Morris and Folly / Douglas R. Egerton
Granite remnants left along the Delaware: the Shohola railroad calamity / Michael P. Gray
"That derogatory rock" : The contested memory of the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota in Mankato, Minnesota / Melodie Andrews
Confederate tombs on Brazilian soil : a trip, a cemetery, and a nexus of confusion / Vitor Izecksohn
The University of Virginia cemetery / Caroline E. Janney
"A martyr in the cause of liberty" : the death and burial of John Rodgers Meigs / Barton A. Myers
The grave of Robert E. Lee, Lexington, Virginia / Allen C. Guelzo
Ulysses S. Grant : a monumental undertaking / Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
Gabriel Colvin Wharton / William C. Davis
"A wonderful tenacity of life": Old Baldy, George Meade's veteran warhorse / Jennifer M. Murray
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : "hero of Little Round Top" / Ronald C. White
"I stood before his silent grave" : John Albion Andrew, the soul of a champion / Stephen D. Engle
"For his father's sake" : the grave of Joseph Evan Davis / John M. Coski
A lost child: James Hutchison Stanton / Walter Stahr
Not-so-final resting places : grave reflections on the historical reputation of Elizabeth Keckly / Michelle A. Krowl
Reflections on the gravestone of William H. Johnson / Michael Burlingame
The slave cemetery and apology marker at the University of Alabama / Hilary Green
"Let the son of a bitch die" : an abandoned graveyard reveals a sad story of murder / Dana B. Shoaf
Civil War gothic : the gravestones of William Barclay Napton and Melinda Williams Napton / Christopher Phillips
John Wilkes Booth's death and burials / Terry Alford
Of graves and the color line / Mark S. Schantz.