Posted on March 8, 2008 by cenantua
I’ve been enjoying Kevin Levine’s blogging about Black Confederates lately and I particularly enjoyed his post Black Confederates: The Standard Formula.
I don’t really think much of the position that some in the SCV and neo-Confederates (yes, I recognize a difference between the two, though at times, people from the two sets are one-in-the-same under the same neo-Confederate ideology) have taken regarding [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Re-inventing memory of the Civil War | Tagged: Black Confederates, Confederacy, free blacks, neo-Confederates, SCV, slaves, Spotsylvania Court House, Tenth Virginia Infantry, United States Colored Troops | 8 Comments »
Posted on February 24, 2008 by cenantua
In late October, I received an e-mail announcing the illegal removal of a Union veteran’s headstone (in Madison County, N.C.) by a direct descendant (but even more surprisingly, he is also a deputy of Gaston County, N.C.). Apparently the Union veteran had prior service with the Confederate army. Like some of the people with whom [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2008 by cenantua
While I have been a student of the American Civil War for a number of years, within the last few years I have become fascinated with the memory of the Civil War. It became a focus of my masters thesis, “Flaws in the Armor of the Grand Illusion: Dissent, Reluctance and Disaffection for the Confederate [...]
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