Fighting for Slavery
More than one out of four of Tennessee's confederate generation remembered class strife."Those who didn't owned slaves hated those who did," declared an upper class Madison Countian. He further...
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Confederate Indian Treaties: Promising more than it could deliver
Here are some excerpts from "The implementation of the Confederate Treaties with the Five Civilized Tribes" by Kenny A. Franks (The Chronicles of Oklahoma, volume LI, Number 1, Spring 1973). The...
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To Arms! Our Soil Must be Defended!
In spite of measurable social strife during the antebellum era, Tennessee's Confederate generation entered the Civil War fairly united.To be sure, a majority of the east Tennesseans, as well as a...
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Indians VS the Klan: Indians 1, Klan 0
January 17th is the anniversary of one of my favorite bits of Southern history: the confrontation between Lumbee Indians and the KKK. I studied Indian law and some Native history in college, and it is...
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The Civil War as seen by The Illustrated London News
We Englishmen may still be permitted to hope that the work of George Washington will not be destroyed—that the double agency which is being brought to bear—the hydraulic press of political hate, and...
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Slavery Divides Southern Whites
East Tennesseans are well aware that their region was culturally distinctive from the rest of the state.Oliver P. Temple, a prominent Unionist and Knoxville attorney, observed in 1912 that the...
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Revealing glimpse into American attitudes of the times
A strange mix of of media spin and racial attitudes on both sides..."Picayune Butler" reports to Lincoln’s Secretary of War the gratifying intelligence that he has made prizes at Hampton of sixty...
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Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources
A concise web page that briefly covers one of the most important topics in academic endeavors...Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Sources... this distinction illustrates the degree to which the...
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Tennessee Attitudes toward Slavery
Responding to a questionnaire sent out by the Tennessee historical committee in 1922, an aging Confederate veteran demonstrated intense class resentment. His father, Joseph Larkins, had owned 100 acres...
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Nathan B. Forrest biographer to present in Blountville
Monday, May 17th, SCV Lt. Robert D. Powell Camp (Blountville, Tennessee) will host Brian Steel Wills, author and professor of history at the University of Virginia. Brian will be speaking on the topic...
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New York Irish
We learn by a private letter received by one of our business men from Richmond, that 26 Irish members of the 69th New York Regiment have left the “__ Wreck” and joined the Confederate forces in...
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Thoughts related to Independence Day
We often know very little about even the most famous Americans from the 1700s. Their lives are surrounded by controversy and myth, and every academic gets to publish their own version of the facts....
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Southern Draft Resistance during World War I
While pro-war southerners evoked the spirits of the valiant Civil War dead in speeches and letters supporting the draft, southern antimilitarists drew upon memories of the Civil War to justify their...
View ArticleThe 'Lincoln Tree' is no more
During the Civil War...When federal troops took over the Seminary and used it for a hospital, they cut down many trees to use for firewood and other purposes. ...President Lincoln, on a visit, noticed...
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Civil War barracks destroyed by fire
The Washita Fort barracks, near Durant, Oklahoma, were destroyed by fire yesterday. Read more here. Another article here.The Washita fort was built in 1842 to house federal troops protecting Choctaw...
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Confederate memory and Ole Miss
Some thoughts on Confederate memory and Ole Miss' New Mascot- The Rebel Black Bear:Confederate memory, like southern history (and indeed all of American history) is complicated. And that complexity...
View ArticleMy Dear Little Boy
War is a dreadful thing, and I would rather do anything in the world than kill a man or help to kill one—but then if we were to let Lincoln’s army pass here, they might go into the State of Virginia...
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Battle of Hampton Roads map
The Civil War Trust brings to our attention a beautiful poster size map of the Battle of Hampton Roads (1862) created by cartographer Bob Pratt. See the following website for a close up section of the...
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Confederate imports supporting the war effort
As a former trade analyst I found the following article of great interest. It covers the commodities imported by the Confederacy and role played by Confederate government purchasing agents. Enjoy these...
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Civil War artillery shells found
Donnie Barrett, director of the Fairhope Museum of History, said he examined one pf the shells this week. He said the shells appeared to be from a Confederate 8-inch Read mortar or another type of gun...
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The only Civil War battle in Virginia in which nearly all the Union troops...
May their memory be eternal. Both Union AND Confederate. Fort Pocahontas was established by the Union in 1861 to defend Richmond from naval assault by Confederate forces. Nearly half of it has been dug...
View ArticleSocial Class and Confederate desertions
Defeats and deprivations contributed to significant attrition among Tennessee soldiers. At the war's end thousands were removed from active service by wounds, by imprisonments, or by desertions. Only a...
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