`THAT MYSTIC CLOUD` Civil War Memory in the Tennessee
... Recollections of the Civil War —through what Warren termed the ‘mystic cloud’ of memory—have often been an imperfect representation of history. As David W. Blight has observed, Americans’ fascination with the war has more often focused on its “music and pathos” than “its enduring challenges, the the ...
... Recollections of the Civil War —through what Warren termed the ‘mystic cloud’ of memory—have often been an imperfect representation of history. As David W. Blight has observed, Americans’ fascination with the war has more often focused on its “music and pathos” than “its enduring challenges, the the ...
The Civil War Years: Rochester and the Civil War
... leaders cited to justify their actions, did not exist and proved to be nothing more than a way of enticing the majority of the people who possessed the “moral sense…devotion to law and order…pride in reverence for the history and government of their common country as any other civilized and patrioti ...
... leaders cited to justify their actions, did not exist and proved to be nothing more than a way of enticing the majority of the people who possessed the “moral sense…devotion to law and order…pride in reverence for the history and government of their common country as any other civilized and patrioti ...
Listing of books in CSO Library
... The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Under the Blue Pennant: Notes of a Naval Officer Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville Battle Chronicles of the Civil War (6 volumes) Lincoln and Douglas: The Debate that Defined America Oldest Living Confederate Widow Te ...
... The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Under the Blue Pennant: Notes of a Naval Officer Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville Battle Chronicles of the Civil War (6 volumes) Lincoln and Douglas: The Debate that Defined America Oldest Living Confederate Widow Te ...
A Hard Blockade: The Union Navy and the Foundation of Union
... and physical effects were directly fomented by the blockade, but other, more subtle effects display the extent of the blockade and its involvement in hard war policy.6 In August, 1861 the Union captured Fort Hatteras in North Carolina, and in November of the same year captured Port Royal Sound in a ...
... and physical effects were directly fomented by the blockade, but other, more subtle effects display the extent of the blockade and its involvement in hard war policy.6 In August, 1861 the Union captured Fort Hatteras in North Carolina, and in November of the same year captured Port Royal Sound in a ...
US History-Honors
... “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can lo ...
... “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can lo ...
106844660 - BORA
... Even allowing that the above quote is a high estimate (albeit one made 17 years ago as of the writing of this paper) it says something about the sheer bulk of the literature on the topic of the war - and by extension, the size of the readership required to sustain such an output. A century and a hal ...
... Even allowing that the above quote is a high estimate (albeit one made 17 years ago as of the writing of this paper) it says something about the sheer bulk of the literature on the topic of the war - and by extension, the size of the readership required to sustain such an output. A century and a hal ...
Judah Benjamin - Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
... rather than revealing the true weakness of Southern forces, Benjamin, as Davis’s loyal Secretary of War, took the blame and resigned. Anti-Semitism was an unpleasant fact – North and South – during the Civil War years and Benjamin was falsely defamed as having weakened the Confederacy by transferrin ...
... rather than revealing the true weakness of Southern forces, Benjamin, as Davis’s loyal Secretary of War, took the blame and resigned. Anti-Semitism was an unpleasant fact – North and South – during the Civil War years and Benjamin was falsely defamed as having weakened the Confederacy by transferrin ...
Confederate Nationalism in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia During
... variations. Whether or not Confederate identity formation during the war transcended state and regional variation or differed from place to place within these three Confederate states is the important question this study addresses. Confederate nationalism was not monolithic. Instead, this project id ...
... variations. Whether or not Confederate identity formation during the war transcended state and regional variation or differed from place to place within these three Confederate states is the important question this study addresses. Confederate nationalism was not monolithic. Instead, this project id ...
Published version
... diplomacy at the outset of the Civil War. The debate that followed the tariff ’s passage created heated British editorial and parliamentary speculation concerning the primary causes of southern secession, with some politicians and numerous newspapers suggesting part or all of the blame lay with nort ...
... diplomacy at the outset of the Civil War. The debate that followed the tariff ’s passage created heated British editorial and parliamentary speculation concerning the primary causes of southern secession, with some politicians and numerous newspapers suggesting part or all of the blame lay with nort ...
Biographies - Civil War Trust
... traded cotton yarn and shoes made in the hospital for fresh vegetables, fruit, chickens, and eggs – giving soldiers the first decent food they’d had in a while. In April 1865, when Union troops were soon to occupy Richmond, ill and wounded patients left any way they could to escape capture by the Ya ...
... traded cotton yarn and shoes made in the hospital for fresh vegetables, fruit, chickens, and eggs – giving soldiers the first decent food they’d had in a while. In April 1865, when Union troops were soon to occupy Richmond, ill and wounded patients left any way they could to escape capture by the Ya ...
Commanders of the Confederacy
... President Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. Davis believed that corruption had destroyed the o ...
... President Jefferson Davis Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. Davis believed that corruption had destroyed the o ...
James Buchanan Essay - Essential Civil War Curriculum
... He did not challenge South Carolinians as President Andrew Jackson had done in his confrontation with that state in the 1830s. Consequently, empowered by the abandonment of any authority over them, the future Confederacy gained in confidence, organization and supplies. And while in January the presi ...
... He did not challenge South Carolinians as President Andrew Jackson had done in his confrontation with that state in the 1830s. Consequently, empowered by the abandonment of any authority over them, the future Confederacy gained in confidence, organization and supplies. And while in January the presi ...
RECONSTRUCTION
... RECONSTRUCTION Lincoln’s plan— pardon all Southerners who took an oath of allegiance to the Union; they could then set up state governments and write constitutions. ...
... RECONSTRUCTION Lincoln’s plan— pardon all Southerners who took an oath of allegiance to the Union; they could then set up state governments and write constitutions. ...
Forgotten Glory: African American Civil War Soldiers and Their
... acknowledged the freeing of slaves as an outcome of the Civil War, it was reunification of the white North and South that was commemorated and naturalized into the white public memory. In the process of becoming a single nation again after the war of “brother against brother,” African American soldi ...
... acknowledged the freeing of slaves as an outcome of the Civil War, it was reunification of the white North and South that was commemorated and naturalized into the white public memory. In the process of becoming a single nation again after the war of “brother against brother,” African American soldi ...
A Nation at War, 1861-1865
... Guard when they were not paid and weren’t given many supplies? How did women help support the war effort? Why did many wounded Confederate soldiers come to Scottsville? Name two ways that Union soldiers damaged the buildings, transportation, and economy of Scottsville in March 1865. Why did it take ...
... Guard when they were not paid and weren’t given many supplies? How did women help support the war effort? Why did many wounded Confederate soldiers come to Scottsville? Name two ways that Union soldiers damaged the buildings, transportation, and economy of Scottsville in March 1865. Why did it take ...
Resources⁴ Educators
... students view just the slide show How to view the articles: 1.Students use the slides_with_notes power point 2.from the slide, click on the picture or shapes (flags) 3.then click on the zoom link, located on the right side of the page 4.locate and read the article (download to read) ...
... students view just the slide show How to view the articles: 1.Students use the slides_with_notes power point 2.from the slide, click on the picture or shapes (flags) 3.then click on the zoom link, located on the right side of the page 4.locate and read the article (download to read) ...
Challenges of Ambiguity: Doing Comparative History.
... aside, the highly praised peaceful revolution of 1989 in the GDR might well trace its conceptual pedigree to the events of 1848!) Both essays, needless to say, were not comparative in any strict sense. By studying related events in the Old and New Worlds in their respective historical context, howev ...
... aside, the highly praised peaceful revolution of 1989 in the GDR might well trace its conceptual pedigree to the events of 1848!) Both essays, needless to say, were not comparative in any strict sense. By studying related events in the Old and New Worlds in their respective historical context, howev ...
DURING THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN
... professional and amateur scholars have long distinguished Confederate General Robert Edward Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia during the campaign with an aura of epic restraint and generally contrasted the Confederates’ treatment of Pennsylvania’s residents with Union armies’ conduct toward southern c ...
... professional and amateur scholars have long distinguished Confederate General Robert Edward Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia during the campaign with an aura of epic restraint and generally contrasted the Confederates’ treatment of Pennsylvania’s residents with Union armies’ conduct toward southern c ...
the-civil-war-unit-slide-show
... • In 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in areas still fighting against the North were free. Jefferson Davis • When the confederate states seceded from the Union, they elected Jefferson Davis as their president. Robert E. Lee • Lee left the US Army to lead ...
... • In 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in areas still fighting against the North were free. Jefferson Davis • When the confederate states seceded from the Union, they elected Jefferson Davis as their president. Robert E. Lee • Lee left the US Army to lead ...
Civil War And Reconstruction
... Hornet's Nest, but massed artillery helped to turn the tide as Confederates surrounded the Union troops and captured, killed, or wounded most. ...
... Hornet's Nest, but massed artillery helped to turn the tide as Confederates surrounded the Union troops and captured, killed, or wounded most. ...
THESIS CONFEDERATE MILITARY STRATEGY
... all the struggles school has had to offer. His timely distractions and adventures always recharged my dying batteries and provided enough energy to push forward. For all the adventures we have had in life, and will continue to have, I am extremely grateful to call him not only a friend, but also a p ...
... all the struggles school has had to offer. His timely distractions and adventures always recharged my dying batteries and provided enough energy to push forward. For all the adventures we have had in life, and will continue to have, I am extremely grateful to call him not only a friend, but also a p ...
the ideologies and allegiances of Civil War soldiers in
... Whether they volunteered or were conscripted, these men risked both their lives and their liberty when they donned the U.S. Army uniform. They could also rest assured knowing that they would lose both if they were captured or failed to win the war. Regardless of how they understood liberty, Hamilton ...
... Whether they volunteered or were conscripted, these men risked both their lives and their liberty when they donned the U.S. Army uniform. They could also rest assured knowing that they would lose both if they were captured or failed to win the war. Regardless of how they understood liberty, Hamilton ...
READ-ALOUD PLAYS ABOUT
... MARIA WHITAKER (blurting it out): He should never have learned how to read! MARY CHESTNUT: Maria! How can you say such a thing? MARIA WHITAKER: Because now he spends all his time reading the newspapers about Mr. Lincoln and your friend Mr. Davis and the war that’s coming, and now his mind is filled ...
... MARIA WHITAKER (blurting it out): He should never have learned how to read! MARY CHESTNUT: Maria! How can you say such a thing? MARIA WHITAKER: Because now he spends all his time reading the newspapers about Mr. Lincoln and your friend Mr. Davis and the war that’s coming, and now his mind is filled ...
At Home and in the Field - Society for Women and the Civil War
... era, our 2014 Conference will highlight the women of 1864 especially those associated with having the war brought to their homes with the theme “War at Her Doorstep.” We invite proposals examining all the women of the homefront and in the field, of the North or the South. The Society for Women and t ...
... era, our 2014 Conference will highlight the women of 1864 especially those associated with having the war brought to their homes with the theme “War at Her Doorstep.” We invite proposals examining all the women of the homefront and in the field, of the North or the South. The Society for Women and t ...
Lost Cause of the Confederacy
The Lost Cause is a set of beliefs which endorsed the virtues of the ante-bellum South embodying a view of the American Civil War as an honorable struggle to maintain those virtues as widely espoused in popular culture especially in the South, while overlooking or downplaying the central role of slavery. Gallagher wrote:The architects of the Lost Cause acted from various motives. They collectively sought to justify their own actions and allow themselves and other former Confederates to find something positive in all-encompassing failure. They also wanted to provide their children and future generations of white Southerners with a 'correct' narrative of the war. The Lost Cause became a key part of the reconciliation process between North and South around 1900. The belief is a popular way that many White Southerners commemorate the war. The United Daughters of the Confederacy is a major organization that has propounded the Lost Cause for over a century. Historian Caroline Janney states:Providing a sense of relief to white Southerners who feared being dishonored by defeat, the Lost Cause was largely accepted in the years following the war by white Americans who found it to be a useful tool in reconciling North and South.The Lost Cause belief was founded upon several historically inaccurate elements. These include the claim that the Confederacy started the Civil War to defend state's rights rather than to preserve slavery, and the related claim that slavery was benevolent, rather than cruel. Historians, including Gaines Foster, generally agree that the Lost Cause narrative also ""helped preserve white supremacy. Most scholars who have studied the white South's memory of the Civil War or the Old South conclude that both portrayed a past society in which whites were in charge and blacks faithful and subservient."" Supporters typically portray the Confederacy's cause as noble and its leadership as exemplars of old-fashioned chivalry and honor, defeated by the Union armies through numerical and industrial force that overwhelmed the South's superior military skill and courage. Proponents of the Lost Cause movement also condemned the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, claiming that it had been a deliberate attempt by Northern politicians and speculators to destroy the traditional Southern way of life. In recent decades Lost Cause themes have been widely promoted by the Neo-Confederate movement in books and op-eds, and especially in one of the movement's magazines, the Southern Partisan. The Lost Cause theme has been a major element in defining gender roles in the white South, in terms of honor, tradition, and family roles. The Lost Cause has been part of memorials and even religious attitudes.