As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. ...InRemembering the Civil War, Caroline E. Janney examines how the war generation--men and women, black and white, Unionists and Confederates--crafted and protected their memories of the nation's greatest conflict. Janney maintains that the participants never fully embraced the reconciliation so famously represented in handshakes across stone walls. Instead, both Union and Confederate veterans, and most especially their respective women's organizations, clung tenaciously to their own causes well into the twentieth century.Janney explores the subtle yet important differences between reunion and reconciliation and argues that the Unionist and Emancipationist memories of the war never completely gave way to the story Confederates told. She challenges the idea that white northerners and southerners salved their war wounds through shared ideas about race and shows that debates about slavery often proved to be among the most powerful obstacles to reconciliation.
Free to Go Where We Liked JANNEY, CAROLINE E.
The journal of the Civil War era,
03/2019, Letnik:
9, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
Relatively few works on the Army of Northern Virginia have looked closely at what happened to the army after the surrender on April 9, 1865. A closer examination of the immediate post-surrender ...period, however, suggests that many of Robert E. Lee's men did not experience surrender as a definitive conclusion to their experience as Confederate soldiers. Because of the generous surrender terms, they dispersed from Appomattox more like soldiers than vanquished rebels. But their journeys also revealed the degree to which a substantial portion of Confederate civilians continued to support them even in defeat and highlighted the ways in which Confederates might continue to fight the results of emancipation. The disbanding of Lee's army thus foreshadowed much of what would play out in the years to come as Confederate soldiers-turned-veterans continued to resist changes to the southern social and political order.
Controversy over a peace monument between Confederate sympathizers and Union advocates that would commemorate Gen Robert E. Lee's surrender to Gen Ulysseys S. Grant at Appomatox is examined. The ...fierce fight that erupted between the War Department and Confederate heritage groups in the 1930s - and the ultimate victory of a small but vocal Confederate contingent over the federal government - reflected a significant shift in historical memory.
The South As It Is Dennett, John Richard; Janney, Caroline E
2010, 2010-07-07
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This classic report originally appeared as a series of articles in the Nation between July 8, 1865, and April 11, 1866. Dennett traveled in seven states—Virginia, North Carolina, South ...Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi—at the very beginning of Reconstruction. His remarkably prophetic account of the recently defeated South is a major source for the history of this transition.
Celebrating the "American traits" of courage and honor allowed veterans and politicians to avoid the divisive political issues of the conflict, such as slavery, while commemorating the best of white ...northern and southern society-that is, remembering a war of brotherly camaraderie rather than one of senseless bloodshed.8 Historians have offered numerous explanations for the popularity of this reconciliationist interpretation during the late nineteenth century, including such influences as national politics, Gilded Age anxieties, and racist sentiment.9 All of these explanations, however, imply that larger social and cultural forces motivated reconciliationist sentiment and thus ignore individual motivations.\n Huntington, in return, compensated her with a pension of $50 a month for life.83 He responded that it was "about the least he could do for the widow of that gallant soldier and Christian gentleman."
