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Battle on the Homefront

This exhibit is about the threats that Confederate wives faced in the absence of their husbands. Through the eyes of Martha Poteet of McDowell County and Ann Bowen of Washington County, North Carolina this exhibit explores what life was like for Confederate families who were forced to make it on their own without much support from their husbands, fathers, and brothers who were off fighting under a Confederate flag all the while facing obstacles which threatened the life they had known until the outbreak of the Civil War.

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Forcing Confederate War Guilt, Displaying National Triumph: Salisbury Prison and the Salisbury National Cemetery

The Salisbury National Cemetery was built as a triumph to Union victory and attempted to force guilt on the former Confederacy. The Confederate prison at Salisbury was one of the most brutal prisons in the Civil War. Immediately after the war, the United States created a National Cemetery at Salisbury, which damned the Confederacy for its actions. However, in the decades following the Civil War, reconciliation transformed the cemetery into a truly national site. The state monuments in the early twentieth century symbolize this. They focused on individual sacrifice instead of Confederate guilt or US triumph. Today the Salisbury National Cemetery is a shared site of grief, no longer dominated by any one section.

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