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Category Archives: Slavery
What Caused the Civil War According to the Confederates
The True Cause of the Civil War—A Never-Ending Debate If you’re in the mood to start a good argument, just ask someone a very simple question: “What caused the American Civil War?” In many parts of the United States, especially … Continue reading
Robert E. Lee vs Ulysses S. Grant: Unexpected Views on Slavery
Lee vs. Grant on Slavery The year 1856 was significant for both Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant in regard to their attitudes toward slavery. Within a few years, these men would both be generals-in-chief on opposing sides in … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Confederacy, Morality of slavery, Robert E. Lee, slavery, Ulysses S. Grant
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How African Americans Lost Their Gettysburg Address
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 home to a well-established African-American community. Indeed, blacks had … Continue reading
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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
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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