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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for March 1-3, 1865
Wednesday, March 1, 1865 J. B. Jones John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866) was a writer who worked in the Confederate War Department in Richmond during the war. His diary was published in 1866 as “A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Confederates, Black soldiers, Campaigns, Diaries, Slavery, The Confederacy
Tagged black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, Emma LeConte, John Beauchamp Jones, prisoner of war, Richmond, RonElFran, the Confederate States Capital, Virginia
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for Feb 28, 1865
Tuesday, February 28, 1865 J. B. Jones John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866) was a writer who worked in the Confederate War Department in Richmond during the war. His diary was published in 1866 as “A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the … Continue reading
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Tagged black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, Emma LeConte, Governor Joseph E. Brown, Jewish Confederate soldier, John Beauchamp Jones, Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, Louis Leon, prisoner of war, Richmond, RonElFran, Staunton, Staunton Spectator, the Confederate States Capital, Virginia
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for Feb 26-27, 1865
Sunday, February 26, 1865 J. B. Jones John Beauchamp Jones (1810-1866) was a writer who worked in the Confederate War Department in Richmond during the war. His diary was published in 1866 as “A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, Augusta County, black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, Emma LeConte, John Beauchamp Jones, Joseph Waddell, Richmond, RonElFran, Staunton, Staunton Spectator, Virginia
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for Feb 23-25, 1865
Thursday, February 23, 1865 Emma Leconte Emma Florence LeConte (1847-1932) lived in Columbia, SC and witnessed Sherman’s burning of the city. “Yankees – that word in my mind is a synonym for all that is mean, despicable and abhorrent.” The … Continue reading
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Tagged A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederate War Department, Emma LeConte, Fall of Wilmington, John Beauchamp Jones, RonElFran, William Tecumseh Sherman
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This Week In 1865: Confederate Diary posts for Feb 22, 1865
Wednesday, February 22, 1865 As J. B. Jones anticipates, Wilmington, NC fell to the Union on this day. General Sherman had taken Columbia, SC on the 17th. Though he denied ordering it to be burned, when his troops left, Columbia … Continue reading
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Tagged A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, black Confederate soldiers, Burning of Columbia, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Emma LeConte, Fall of Wilmington, John Beauchamp Jones, RonElFran, William Tecumseh Sherman
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Lincoln in 1855: Slavery will never end peacefully
Abraham Lincoln was a realist. At a time when many in the country, including most politicians, were desperately seeking a way to keep the slavery issue under wraps, Lincoln had already recognized that the South’s “peculiar institution” wasn’t going to … Continue reading
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Tagged abolition, fugitive slaves, half slave and half free, RonElFran, secession
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Virginia’s Governor urges use of slaves as Confederate Soldiers
By December of 1864 it was clear to anyone who cared to see that the Confederacy was fast approaching exhaustion. Union armies under Grant in Virginia and Sherman in Georgia had placed a chokehold on the military resources of the … Continue reading
Posted in Black Confederates, Black soldiers, Jefferson Davis, Secession, Slavery, The Confederacy
Tagged Andrew Martin Chandler, black Confederate soldiers, black Confederates, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate government, Confederate states, Confederates, Jefferson Davis, Patrick Cleburne, RonElFran, Silas Chandler, the Confederacy, William "Extra Billy" Smith
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The “blunder” in the Declaration of Independence
When the Confederate states seceded from the Union, they considered themselves, rather than the North, to be the true upholders of American liberty. It’s always been hard for me to understand how people who fought for the right to hold … Continue reading
Mary Elizabeth Bowser: A Union Spy in Jefferson Davis’s House
In the final months of the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, knew that critical information was somehow being leaked to the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant. He was right about the … Continue reading
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Tagged confederate president jefferson davis, Confederate White House, confederate white house richmond, Jefferson Davis, jefferson davis civil war, jefferson davis home, jefferson davis wife, Mary Elizabeth Bowser, mary elizabeth bowser biography, mary elizabeth bowser pictures, mary elizabeth bowser timeline, Union spies; secret agents, varina davis
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Slavery and the Golden Rule
White Christians in the South who supported slavery (as most did) had a problem. They were assured from practically every pulpit throughout the cotton states that slavery was an institution sanctioned by God. After all, they were taught, Abraham owned … Continue reading