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… and as for Marylanders and 1861…
Having asked for input regarding who should be Virginia’s person of the year for 1861, I felt that I also had to ask the same for Maryland. This time, however, Robert E. Lee is not an option, creating...
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“The victor gets to write the history …”
So explain this: Why is it “Stonewall Jackson taught us what the pause that refreshes really was”? Why not have a painting of Uncle Billy giving the boys a pause somewhere near Atlanta (the home of...
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WYSIWYG Confederates?
Pardon the silence for the last week. A few unavoidable matters over the past week set posting back a bit, but let me see if I can get things moving once again… What are WYSIWYG Confederates? Well, in...
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Were Virginia’s Confederate Reserves a smokescreen of deception?
I’m really jumping the gun here, because I should be holding this story in reserve (sure, why not… pun intended) until 2014… marking the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Virginia’s Confederate...
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Protect slavery or face “degredation and ruin.”
Looking back 150 years ago, from the Shenandoah Valley… this comes from the Staunton Vindicator, March 29, 1861… The question is not “Union”. That is irretrievably, hopelessly broken up. No compromise...
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John B. Baldwin on the threatened right(s?) of Virginians
From the Virginia Convention, Thursday, March 21, 1861… we catch Mr. Baldwin in the middle of his presentation to the members of the Convention (as documented by someone present)… She [Augusta County]...
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That hideous Yankee tariff!
… and yet… A Southern gentleman who resides in Augusta, Ga., writes thus:–”If the South were merely let alone for six months, we would probably try at the next general election to get back. The new...
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“Secession Intollerance”
The Staunton Spectator (March 26, 1861) reflects on a piece from the Petersburg Intelligencer: The intolerance of the immediate Secessionists, is without precedent in Virginia history. All men must...
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Cenantua Name Change
Just more of an administrative announcement here. Concurrent with a buyout of Cenantua’s Blog, we will begin changing the scope and of course the name of this blog. Craig Swain, who has been itching...
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An observation – Civil War in Virginia Month… chirp, chirp chirp…
Today IS April 2, and that chirping would be the sound of crickets in the absence of a proclamation, as yet, by Governor Bob McDonnell. Yet, despite the proposed redirection toward a “Civil War in...
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Maryland is “Southron”, ya’ll… and therefore, Confederate!(???)
Oh, goodness… what do we have here? Obviously, the video has a number of issues, but I’m just going to stick to the “Southern = Confederate” issue rearing its ugly head, yet once again. There is no...
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Where were the rights of the people under the new Confederacy?
No right to choose constitutions and laws is to be extended to the people. Their masters, the politicians, in the Southern Confederacy, did not even allow them to vote for President and Vice President....
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“Submission is Ruin.”
I’ll let a pro-secession paper in Virginia speak for itself… Nothing could be more preposterous, nothing more stupid, than the dogma that slavery is a curse to the country. On the contrary, the...
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… because of Lincoln’s call for troops…
A thought… How many folks say that their ancestors joined the Confederate army because Lincoln made the call for 75,000 troops? Just curious, but, how many of those ancestors actually enlisted in the...
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A Confederate heritage that I built…
As shocking as it might seem to some who peruse this blog, and especially my Southern Unionist Chronicles blog (which desperately needs some new posts…), I grew up on Confederate heritage. However,...
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“You were once… Governor… and we will take orders from you, sir.”
During the next few days of the Sesquicentennial, I’ll have a few things to say about what I believe to be a dark time in Virginia’s history. But, why? I’ll keep it simple. On April 15, John D. Imboden...
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Wise pushes Virginia over the edge
Morning of April 17, 1861… On the floor of the Virginia Convention, ex-Governor Wise put on quite a show. After drawing a horse pistol from his bosom and laying it on the table in front of him, he...
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“They call me a traitor now”
This poem (and, no, not written by the same author, whose poem I posted on April 21… and not to fret, I’ll be telling you more about the author of that poem, soon) comes from the Memphis Bulletin (as...
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Enter… the Confederate army of occupation
It’s difficult for some Southerners to see it that way, but, in fact, that is the way that some Southerners felt in 1861. As Craig points out in his post, from April 26, some folks and communities are...
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USCT, 54th & 55th Massachusetts men in Mercersburg, Pa
My first tour stops for the day…
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