Being the report of the commission to dedicate the monument erected by the State of New York in Andersonville, Georgia to commemorate the heroism, sacrifices and patriotism of more than nine thousands of her sons who were confined in that prison, of whom more than two thousand five hundred perished there, with an account of services of the New York resident surviving Andersonville veterans held thereat and also enroute at Richmond and Danville, VA., Salisbury, N.C., and Lookout Mountain, Tenn., April 26-30, 1914.

Using Jungian archetypal theory, the authors explore the phenomenon of pilgrimage, as well as various types of pilgrimages, and suggest a way of understanding their meaning and variety.

This study argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. It explains how Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them.

The modern pilgrimage—to sites ranging from Graceland to the veterans’ annual ride to to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Jim Morrison’s Paris grave—is intertwined with man’s existential uncertainties in the face of a rapidly changing world. In a climate that reproduces the religious quest in seemingly secular places, it’s no longer clear exactly what the term pilgrimage infers—and Shrines and Pilgrimage in the Modern World critiques our notions of the secular and the sacred, while commenting on the modern media’s multiplication of images that renders the modern pilgrimage a quest without an object. Using new ethnographical and theoretical approaches, this volume offers a surprising new vision on the non-secularity of the “secular” pilgrimage. "This book will be sure to stoke our intellectual fire and heat up the discussion over the highly charged topic of secular pilgrimage.”—Simon Bronner, Penn State University

Includes Annual report of the Boy Scouts of America.