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Investigation of the Hazen Brigade Monument Stones River National Battlefield, Tennessee
The stones comprising the upper courses of the Hazen Brigade Monument have been loosened and displaced by rainwater seeping into the interior between the capstones and then percolating through the fill and by vibrations caused by locomotives on the nearby railroad. After a study of the monument which involved the removal of one capstone so as to view the interior, a historical architect and an architecture conservator from the Southeast Cultural Resources Preservation Center determined that it would be necessary to remove the capstones and to empty the fill from the interior in order to realign dislocated stones and add interior walls to provide additional support (Moore 1985a). Based on the above-mentioned field research and preliminary historical data, architecture conservator Benjamin Nistal-Moret stated that 'no further preservation designs and alterations can be developed until an exhaustive historic archaeological testing and research is completed' (Nistal-Moret 1984). This perceived need for archeological tests and possible salvage was based on the following considerations: an oral tradition that the monument contained the bodies of some of the brigade's officers; an 1885 report terming the monument 'a large sarcophagus'; the appearance of the monument 'is uncommonly plain and box-like, and hence suggestive of a sarcophagus'; and the observation of Dr. Benjamin Nistal-Moret that the fill contained particles and was of a coloring consistent with the appearance of decayed bone (Moore 1985b).
Investigation of the Hazen Brigade Monument Stones River National Battlefield, Tennessee
The stones comprising the upper courses of the Hazen Brigade Monument have been loosened and displaced by rainwater seeping into the interior between the capstones and then percolating through the fill and by vibrations caused by locomotives on the nearby railroad. After a study of the monument which involved the removal of one capstone so as to view the interior, a historical architect and an architecture conservator from the Southeast Cultural Resources Preservation Center determined that it would be necessary to remove the capstones and to empty the fill from the interior in order to realign dislocated stones and add interior walls to provide additional support (Moore 1985a). Based on the above-mentioned field research and preliminary historical data, architecture conservator Benjamin Nistal-Moret stated that 'no further preservation designs and alterations can be developed until an exhaustive historic archaeological testing and research is completed' (Nistal-Moret 1984). This perceived need for archeological tests and possible salvage was based on the following considerations: an oral tradition that the monument contained the bodies of some of the brigade's officers; an 1885 report terming the monument 'a large sarcophagus'; the appearance of the monument 'is uncommonly plain and box-like, and hence suggestive of a sarcophagus'; and the observation of Dr. Benjamin Nistal-Moret that the fill contained particles and was of a coloring consistent with the appearance of decayed bone (Moore 1985b).
Investigation of the Hazen Brigade Monument Stones River National Battlefield, Tennessee
J. W. Walker (author)
1989
23 pages
Report
No indication
English
| Wiley | 1930
Goodbye, Hazen; Hello, Kozeny-Carman
| Online Contents | 2003
Goodbye, Hazen; Hello, Kozeny-Carman
| British Library Online Contents | 2003