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 [...]
Filed under: "Shuffled" memory of the Civil War, American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Re-inventing memory of the Civil War | Tagged: 1860 census, Civil War memory, Confederacy, Confederate, Lost Cause Myth, myth of a solid South, referendum on secession, Shenandoah Valley, Southern Claims Commission, Southern Loyalist Claims, Tidewater of Virginia | 1 Comment »
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 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 [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Re-inventing memory of the Civil War | Tagged: 1861, Alabama, Barbour County, Bibb County, Blount County, Butler County, Calhoun County, Confederacy, Confederate, Etowah County, Henry County, Jefferson County, Lowndes County, Marengo County, Pike County, referendum, Russell County, secession, Shelby County, Shenandoah Valley, Southern Loyalist Claims, St. Clair County, Talledega County, Virginia | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: "Shuffled" memory of the Civil War, American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: 1856 Presidential returns for the Shenandoah Valley, 1859 gubernatorial vote, 1860 Presidential returns for the Shenandoah Valley, referendum on secession, Shenandoah Valley, Southern Loyalist Claims | 4 Comments »
Posted on April 8, 2008 by cenantua
The following table specifies the number of votes cast in the three elections from 1856-1860 and the referendum vote on secession in 1861. I’ll comment more on this later. However, with a quick glance at the difference between numbers of voters in 1860 and 1861, in most cases (Rockingham and Shenandoah counties being the exception) [...]
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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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Posted on April 4, 2008 by cenantua
Since I’m unable to find the next set of stats that I had planned to post today, I figured that this was a good opportunity to pause a bit and reflect on what I’ve put online and what is yet to come.
About two years ago, when I was compiling data for my thesis, I looked [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: 1859 gubernatorial vote in Virginia, 1860 presidential vote in Virginia, chaos theory, Civil War memory, Confederacy, Confederate deserters, Culpeper County, Daniel E. Sutherland, Guerrillas Unionists and Violence on the Confederate Ho, hypertext theory, Page County, referendum, secession, Shenandoah Valley, Solid South, Southern Claims Commission, Southern Loyalist Claims, Southern Unionists, Stonewall Jackson, Union armies | No Comments »
Posted on April 2, 2008 by cenantua
Considering I brought up the use of coercion in the referendum for secession in Virginia (and more specifically in Page County in the Shenandoah Valley) in yesterday’s post, I thought it might be interesting to ride with this topic a little more. Today, I’m laying out the raw numbers on the referendum for all of [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: Augusta County, Berkeley County, Clarke County, coercion, Frederick County, Gods & Generals, Jefferson County, Page County, referendum on secession, Rockbridge County, Rockingham County, Shenandoah County, Shenandoah Valley, Warren County, West Virginia | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 1, 2008 by cenantua
I can’t help but think of that scene in Gods & Generals when it came to the vote for secession in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Some may remember it, where the actor playing William Nelson Pendleton announced the vote and that there had been only one vote against secession in the county (after which, a person [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General, Re-inventing memory of the Civil War | Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, coerced vote for secession, coercion, fear, Gods & Generals, James C. Robertson, John Inscoe, Joseph Miller, Joseph Painter, Martin Ellis, Martin Hite, Morgan M. Price, Page County, referendum for secession, Rockbridge County, Samuel Varner, Shenandoah Valley, Southern Loyalist Claims, William H. Sours, William Nelson Pendleton | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 5, 2008 by cenantua
While the movie Cold Mountain has been out for sometime, I found a very interesting link to “Cold Mountain Diary.” Between this page and a few others, Charles Frazier (author of Cold Mountain) and others provide some great details about how the story came to be. Incidentally, I found this link through that syllabus that [...]
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