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The Lost Cause and Reunion in the Confederate Cemeteries of the North

Ned Crankshaw, Joseph E. Brent and Maria Campbell Brent
Landscape Journal, August 2017, 35 (1) 1-22; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.35.1.1
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