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 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 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 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 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 »
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 [...]
Filed under: American Civil War, Civil War Memory - General | Tagged: 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry, Absalom Nauman, Battle of Cold Harbor, Battle of Lynchburg, Battle of New Market, Cold Mountain, Confederate conscription, Confederate Home Guard, Confederate militia, Confederate nationalism, Garnett Nicholson, Luray, Shenandoah Valley, Siram W. Offenbacker, Southern Loyalist Claims, Thomas Eaton | No Comments »
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