Month: July 2021
A Future Leader of the Resistance to Reconstruction Advocates Confederate Enlistment of Black Soldiers
I have read a number of musings and proposals by Confederates to enlist Black men into the Confederate army. The most famous is General Pat…
South Carolina Plantation to Tell the Story of the African Americans Who Escaped From It
Historic Brattonsville in McConnells, S.C. is working on a new exhibit focusing on four people enslaved at the plantation at the center of the historic…
The Reconstruction Era Klan As an Employer Association
Chad Pearson, a professor of history at Collin College in Texas, has an article in Jacobin on the importance of the Ku Klux Klan to…
Paintings of Prison Life at Point Lookout by a Captive Confederate
John Jacob Omenhausser was born in 1832 in Philadelphia to a German immigrant family. When the Civil War began he was living in Richmond, Virginia….
Judge Orders Confederate Statue Near Courthouse Removed
Roanoke County Circuit Judge Charles Dorsey ordered a Confederate statue removed from next county courthouse grounds. This is the first time such an order has…
Andersonville and the Whitewashing of History
We know of the suffering and death at Andersonville prison during its fourteen months as a Confederate prison for captured Union soldiers in 1864 and…
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield
Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous Civil War Prison Camp – Elmira, NY by Derick Maxfield published by Savas Beatie (2020) 192 pages Hellmira: The Union’s…
Visiting Elmira Prison Camp and Cemetery
24 % of the Confederate soldiers held at Elmira prison camp died there. In 2019 I was moving my step-son up to college at SUNY…
Opponents of Reconstruction Used Tropes of White Victimization to Oppose Black Equality
Historian Lawrence Glickman has a fascinating article in The Atlantic on the ways modern opponents of civil rights use tropes common among the opponents of…
Data Gives Hints on Which Union Prisoners of War Survived
In 2017, Earl Hess had an interesting article in the Journal Civil War History. It focuses on the use of the Early Indicators database for…
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