Acknowledgments
Editor's Note

Introduction / Adam Domby

General Monument Avenue

1. Creating Monument Avenue / John Salmo

2. Richmond's Other Confederate Cornerstones / Christina Keyser Vida

3. "For A Far Remote Posterity": Cornerstone Boxes and Masonic Ceremonies / Sir Knight Peter Spring and Christina Keyser Vida

4. How to Make a Time Capsule: Lessons Learned While Opening and Preserving the Lee Monument Cornerstone Boxes / Sue Donovan and Katherine Ridgway

Life and Times

5. Where Are the Women? / Caroline E. Janney

6. Mitchell's Prophecy: Black Richmonders, the Lee Monument, and the Lost Cause Redux, 1890–2021 / Ervin L. Jordan Jr.

7. In Other News: Stories from The Daily Times, October 23, 1887 / Sam Florer

8. Calling Cards: An Introduction from the Past / Elizabeth Moore

10. Twelve Copper Coins from Two Little Boys / Erik Goldstein

11. Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Two Carved Objects / Laura Galke

12. Biography of a Contribution: The Nolting Note / Maggie Creech

13. Virginia Is for Huguenot Lovers / Laura Lavernia

Militariana

14. Buttoning on a Navy in Haste / Brendan Burke and Patrick Boyle

15. Carlton McCarthy's Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life / Christopher A. Graham

16. Analyzing the Past: Analysis of an Army of Northern Virginia Badge / Hannah Sanner

17. The Richmond Sharpshooters, Company H, Twenty-Third Virginia Infantry Confederate Veterans Muster Roll / Robert L. Jolley

18. Muster at High Tide: The June 30th Muster Roll of the Petersburg Old Grays, Co. B, Twelfth Virginia Infantry / Brendan Burke

19. Annual Reunion Pegram Battalion Association / Christopher A. Graham

20. A Lasting Impression: Inspecting the Seal of the Office of the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, CSA / Brendan Burke

21. Investing in the Confederacy: The Role of Bonds in Funding the Confederacy / Robert L. Jolley

Epilogue / Julian Hayter

Appendix A: Contents of the Stonewall Jackson Monument Cornerstone Box

Appendix B: Contents of the Jefferson Davis Monument Cornerstone Box

Appendix C: Time Capsule Resources

Appendix D: Contents of Robert E. Lee Cornerstone Box

Notes on Contributors

Index

The Buried Cause

Unearthing Hidden History in the Lee Monument Cornerstone