Posted on April 24, 2008 by cenantua
It might seem like I have laid aside my focus on Civil War “memory,” but I’ve actually been looking into beginning a run of posts that analyze Southern Loyalist Claims. In fact, what I may do is begin focusing on several regions (small groupings of counties in close proximity) within states and begin comparing the [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2008 by cenantua
It’s most certainly a work in-progress, but for what it’s worth, I’m opening access to my hypertext nonfiction, ”Being Cenantua.” Personally, I consider the site currently on par with a construction site in an early stage (READER BEWARE — there are “dead links.” O.K., by definition, they don’t necessarily qualify as “dead links,” the hyperlinked pages just haven’t [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by cenantua
I realized that I should have included this with my earlier posts about the vote for secession in the Shenandoah Valley. This is a record of the vote from Virginia’s Secession Convention. Keep in mind that these votes were made on April 4 and April 17 respectively. The public vote on secession did not come [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by cenantua
Yes, and some people just don’t get it. I mean, I know there are a lot of people out there who understand just what I’m getting ready to say, but I think most people just don’t understand “us.” What does it mean to be obsessed with the Civil War? This is no simple discussion when [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by cenantua
I didn’t learn about Edwin Arthur Emerson until about a year or so ago. I think the thing that most intrigued me was that, while I had been fascinated with the soldier family members who had served in the war, I did not realize that I had a family member present, on stage, on the [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by cenantua
I certainly believe that each area, no matter whether it be in Virginia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina or in any of the states that made up the Confederacy, should be examined based on distinctive differences (demographics, slave population, etc.), taking each county and/or area, one at a time.
So far, I’ve just focused on the Shenandoah [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2008 by cenantua
No, it wasn’t a standard feeling of those who voted for “secesh,” but I do think it’s worth mentioning (especially in the wake of the quick analysis of the referendum numbers) that some who were anxious for secession and likely voted for it in the referendum, weren’t so eager to defend the very “cause” [...]
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Posted on April 10, 2008 by cenantua
Speaking of crunched… ohhhhh, with only three weeks left in the semester, I’ve been crunched to find time to make a post. However, I can’t let go of this issue of the number of votes casts in the Shenandoah between 1856-1860, and the significant number of apparent absences at the polls when it came to [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by cenantua
Pausing briefly in my postings about the Shenandoah Valley, I wanted to reflect a bit on the death of Charlton Heston. After hearing the news, my immediate memories were of The Ten Comandments (ranking first), Planet of the Apes, Midway, El Cid, Gray Lady Down, and a vague memory of Soylent Green (and, of course, the NRA). While I enjoyed most [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by cenantua
Still need the returns for the 1860 Presidential election, but, in the meantime, this is a start. The quick and handy source for information about the 1856 Presidential election returns in Virginia and the 1859 Virginia Gubernatorial returns is The Virginia Civil War Home Page:
County
Millard Fillmore
(Whig)
1856
James Buchanan
(Democrat)
1856
William L. Goggin
(Know-Nothing)
1859
John Letcher
(Democratic)
1859
Augusta
1904
1449
2170
1402
Berkeley
846
997
883
1057
Clarke
225
404
252
371
Frederick
898
1351
888
1124
Jefferson
845
946
857
875
Page
57
1034
130
960
Rockbridge
1036
1124
1230
1208
Rockingham
510
2733
760
2402
Shenandoah
233
2339
272
1912
Warren
145
568
215
456
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