Posted on March 13, 2008 by cenantua
In reading through the website for the 1st Alabama Cavalry, USV, I ran across an interesting page that made reference to a Grant administration veto. What it boils down to (at least my take on it) is that because these Southerners (Southern Unionists) enlisted to seek refuge (at least that was President Grant’s take on [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008 by cenantua
I remember sometime back receiving notification about the release of the book, War Crimes Against Southern Civilians. I didn’t purchase it but the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the title was that this was yet another addition to the growing “self-help hate the Yankees” stack of books. From what I have [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: 1st Alabama (Union) Cavalry, Henry Tucker, Mark Grimsley, Stephen V. Ash, The Hard Hand of War, War Crimes Against Southern Civilians, When the Yankees Came | No Comments »
Posted on March 10, 2008 by cenantua
After exchanging a couple of e-mails with a friend last night, I mentioned a genealogical website that I thought looked like it had potential. I gave the trial version of Footnote a try about a month or so ago, but it seemed to have slow response time (it may have had something to do with [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Re-inventing memory of the Civil War, Reflections on "personal memory" of the Civil War | Tagged: 1st Alabama (Union) Cavalry, 5th Alabama (Confederate) Cavalry, Burrell Howell, Confederate nationalism, Footnote, Lost Cause Myth, Marion County Alabama, Southern Loyalist Claims, Southern Unionists | 4 Comments »
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