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File Name	shades_oliv_0001.jpg
Creator	McGill, J. Andrew, photographer
Title	Mt. Olivet Cemetery Confederate Circle
Alternate Title	Confederate Circle, Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee
Date	ca. 1870
Genre	Photographs
Description	Park-like setting in which a stone obelisk topped with a uniformed soldier stands surrounded by a paved circular walkway, with two flags bearing the Confederate "stars and bars" planted on the lawn on either side of the walkway entrance. Various tombstones and a small mausoleum are also visible in the vicinity.
Historical note	The Confederate Circle at Mt. Olivet Cemetery was created in 1869 as part of a reinterment project designed to honor approximately 1500 Confederate soldiers who died in and around Nashville during the Civil War. Members of the Ladies Memorial Society purchased a prominent location on a hill within the existing 1855 cemetery. Officials and dignitaries attended the dedication of the new burial ground on 9 May 1869, which was declared the local "Decoration Day" in Nashville. The program also encompassed a visit to decorate graves at the old City Cemetery, from which some of the dead were being transferred.
Subject	Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville, Tenn.); United States--History--Civil War, 1961-1865--Cemeteries--Confederate; Tombs and Sepulchral Monuments
Theme	The Persistence of Memory
Story	Remembrance: Monuments and Cemeteries
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Nashville
Time period	1870-1879
Credit line	Photograph by J. Andrew McGill
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,176
Archival file	shades3/shades_oliv_0001.jpg