Military Monuments and Memorials in South Carolina - 9780965081481

This heirloom-quality hardcover book is designed for scholars, historians, and military history enthusiasts. The 9 x 11 book weighs over 5 pounds and includes 217 photographs. It features complete verbatim transcrips of all inscriptions -- including lengthy lists of names -- found on 636 military monuments and memorials in South Carolina. Prefatory text includes detailed military history of South Carolina. This narrative begins in the colonial era and carries the reader forward to the present day. Following the 3 prefatory chapters, the 636 memorial structures in the state are grouped together into the county in which they are located, starting with Abbeville County and concluding with York County. The display for each structure is preceded by the following information: (1) Name of the city or town in which the structure is located, or nearest to the structure. (2)Common descriptive name, or displayed name, of the structure. (3) Latitude and longitude. (4) Directions to the structure. (5) Thumbnail description of the height and composition of the structure. (6) Month and year when the structure was documented for inclusion in this project. Following this identifying information, text and inscriptions found on the structure are presented in graphic display boxes in the interest of clarity. Inscriptions found on separate sides or surfaces of the structure are presented in separate graphic display boxes. In such cases an explanatory interpolation, italicized and enclosed in brackets, precedes the display. Inscriptions on some large structures include lists of hundreds of names. In such cases in the interest of page-space preservation, such lists may be re-columnized. Any such re-columnization within a graphic display box is prefaced by an explanatory interpolation. A final chapter, "The Ghastly Price of Freedom, extols the terrible sacrifices made by those in the U.S. Armed Forces who have served in combat. This chapter concludes with the timeless eulogy delivered by chaplain Roland B. Gittlesohn on the island of Iwo Jima in March 1945, during World War II.