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  Hollywood Cemetery: The History of a Southern Shrine
By Mary H. Mitchell
Price: $25.00
Inspired by the international rural cemetery movement, created amid controversy in the 1840s and 1850s, and challenged by the toll of the Civil War, Hollywood Cemetery is both an American and a southern landmark. Here lie United States presidents James Monroe and John Tyler as well as Confederate president Jefferson Davis. J. E. B. Stuart, George Pickett, and countless other southern officers and soldiers found their final rest in these grounds. The cemetery's early monuments reflect the eclectic tastes of the Victorian era, when the cemetery was a place of retreat and contemplation. Gracefully written after a decade of research in original records, Richmond author Mary H. Mitchell's Hollywood Cemetery will interest readers throughout Virginia, the South, and the nation. The reprint edition of 1999 is updated with a new dust jacket, foreword, and additional illustrations.
194 pages, hardcover, ISBN 08849019339, Richmond, Virginia: Library of Virginia, 1999
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