Longstreet Memorial Fund Records, 1991-1999

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Longstreet Memorial Fund Records, 1991-1999

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The Longstreet Memorial Fund was established in June 1991 by the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to erect a monument to the memory of Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Confederate States of America. The fund's committee worked with artist Gary Casteel and members of the National Park Service to establish such a monument in Pitzer Woods, Gettysburg National Military Park. Materials document the committee's fund-raising efforts, artist selection, and design collaboration; National Park Service specifications and approvals; and the monument's unveiling ceremony. Included is correspondence, speeches and writings, press releases, newspaper articles and clippings, brochures and broadsides, newsletters, committee minutes and schedules, topographical surveys of the site, and landscape and sculpture designs. Among the correspondents are Jesse Helms and Terry Sanford.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Sons of Confederate Veterans (Organization). North Carolina Division. Longstreet Memorial Fund

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The Longstreet Memorial Fund was established in June 1991 by the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to erect a monument to the memory of Lieutenant General James Longstreet, Confederate States of America. The fund's committee worked with artist Gary Casteel and members of the National Park Service to establish such a monument in Pitzer Woods, Gettysburg National Military Park. From the description of Longstreet Memorial Fund records, 1991-1999. WorldCat recor...