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Category Archives: American History
Civilians in the Siege of Vicksburg: Living in Caves, Eating Rats
Vicksburg, Mississippi, situated on a high bluff that allowed the big guns placed there by the Confederates to interdict Union navigation of the Mississippi River, was considered by both North and South as a major key to victory in the … Continue reading
Ulysses S. Grant vs Robert E. Lee on Slavery
In 1856, Robert E. Lee described slavery as a “moral & political evil.” That same year Ulysses S. Grant, who personally owned a slave at the time, apparently had no moral objection to the institution. But their actual actions toward … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Confederacy, Morality of slavery, Robert E. Lee, slavery, Ulyesses S. Grant
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Why the Confederacy Was Doomed Even if It Won the Civil War
If the South Had Won In 1961, Pulitzer Prize-winning author MacKinlay Kantor published a book called If the South Had Won the Civil War. Kantor imagined that the slave-holding Confederate States of America (CSA) had defeated the Union and firmly … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, States Rights
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How African Americans Lost Their Gettysburg Address
Lee’s army tried to capture and enslave Black Pennsylvanians How Gettysburg’s African American Community Fared at the Hands of Robert E. Lee’s Army As spring slipped into summer in the year 1863, the peaceful little town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was … Continue reading
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How Whites Used “Negro Balls” To Prevent Slave Revolts Before the Civil War
On Monday, January 28, 1861, the city of New Orleans was in a festive mood. Two separate (though definitely not equal) celebrations were being held in the city that night. Both were supposedly joyous occasions, but each had a far … Continue reading
Why Confederates Believed Blacks Loved Being Enslaved
White Southerners Had to Believe Blacks Didn’t Object to Being Enslaved Before and during the American Civil War, most whites in the slave-holding Southern states professed an unwavering conviction that their slaves were happy and content in their bondage, and … Continue reading
We Should Be Erecting Statues of Ulysses Grant, Not Tearing Them Down
The protestors who pulled down a statue of Grant got it totally wrong! In June of 2020, during the protests sparked by the killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd, activists tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant in San … Continue reading →