Disunion! Civil War is Proclaimed! (1 Viewer)

[wadepat]

Gentle Friends,

In my efforts to move posts by Jay and Lancer to another, more appropriate, thread (Myths about the Civil War), I made a few elementary errors in the process. My apologies to Jay and Lancer.

You will find their posts in the Myths about the Civil War thread, but, unfortunately, the posts appear under my name. At the beginning of each post, I indicated who composed the post in order to make certain the authors received the credit to which they are due for their contributions to the discussion.

I apologize to all for any confusion I have caused.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat :redface2:

 

[jazzeum]

April 14 - 20, 1861. A look back at a momentous week in American history, starting with the surrender of Fort Sumter and ending with Lincoln's concerns about the vulnerabililty of Washington, D.C. to Confederate attack.

The article can be accessed here.

Note: each week this series sums up what has taken place in the previous week. However, I don't think the writer, Jamie Malanowski (who is a novelist; part of the problem), is quite up to the challenge and has a disconcerting tendency to swing back and forth from the present to the past tense.

 

[lancer]

Don't know where else to ask this, but why was the ACW Myths thread closed? -- Al

 

[jazzeum]

Al,

It's still there. I think Pat had a couple of glitches moving a couple of posts from this thread but it's still there.

 

[lancer]

Al,

It's still there. I think Pat had a couple of glitches moving a couple of posts from this thread but it's still there.

Hi Brad. Yeah, it is still there but it lists as closed and locked. I am unable to post on it. No idea why. Is it just me? -- Al

 

[wadepat]

Hi Brad. Yeah, it is still there but it lists as closed and locked. I am unable to post on it. No idea why. Is it just me? -- Al

Hi Al,

Yes, the Myths about the Civil War thread is closed. It is under review by the Council of Moderators. The thread can still be read, but posts cannot presently be placed on the thread.

Also, Brad is correct. I experienced some glitches while moving posts from one thread to another, but the glitches are not the cause for the Moderators' review. My apologies for the confusion.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

 

[lancer]

Hi Al,

Yes, the Myths about the Civil War thread is closed. It is under review by the Council of Moderators. The thread can still be read, but posts cannot presently be placed on the thread.

Also, Brad is correct. I experienced some glitches while moving posts from one thread to another, but the glitches are not the cause for the Moderators' review. My apologies for the confusion.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat

Thanks for the answer, Pat. -- Al

 

[Jay]

Gentle Friends,

In my efforts to move posts by Al and Lancer to another, more appropriate, thread (Myths about the Civil War), I made a few elementary errors in the process. My apologies to Jay and Lancer.

You will find their posts in the Myths about the Civil War thread, but, unfortunately, the posts appear under my name. At the beginning of each post, I indicated who composed the post in order to make certain the authors received the credit to which they are due for their contributions to the discussion.

I apologize to all for any confusion I have caused.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat :redface2:

Pat, no problem. Just make sure the check for royalties is made out to the correct name. :wink2:

 

[wadepat]

Pat, no problem. Just make sure the check for royalties is made out to the correct name. :wink2:

Hi Jay,

I seem to be apologizing a great deal lately. ^&grin I am sorry for the mistake. I think I have now corrected the name on the royalties check. Take a look at it to make sure I have succeeded.

Warmest personal regards,

Pat :wink2:

 

[jazzeum]

April 18, 1861. A re-telling of the story of the first man in the North injured in the Civil War, Nick Biddle, from Pottsville, Pennyslvnia as he and his unit, the Washington Artillery from Pottsville, Pennsylvania, were marching through the streets of Baltimore (amdist hostile pro-secessionist crowds) to get a train to Washington to help in the defense of the capital. Article by Ronald Coddington.

The article can be accessed here.

 

[jazzeum]

April 18, 1861. The Battle of Baltimore. Union troops trying to get to Washington D.C. are attacked by Southern sympathizers. When all said was said and done, 10 Union soldiers were dead and the Baltimore mob suffered 11 dead.



The article can be accessed here.

 

[jazzeum]

April 20, 1861. In what is known as the Great Sumter Rally, 100,000 people rallied at Union Square in New York City to show support for the Union. This was the largest public rally ever held in the United States at that time and was attended by Major Robert Anderson.



The article can be accessed here

 

[Jay]

These articles are great. Keep em coming!

 

[Partner]

Jazzeum , I look forward to this everyday
Thanks
Kirk

 

[jazzeum]

Kirk,

Me too. Another one coming up soon

 

[jazzeum]

April 19, 1861. Robert E. Lee, at home and alone in his study makes a decision and resigns from the U.S. Army, notwithstanding that many of his brothers and sisters, including Lee's wife, did not support his stand. In a recently discovered letter, Mary Custis Lee, his eldest daughter, describes how Lee wrestled with his decision.

The article can be accessed here.

 

[jazzeum]

April 21, 1861. The Nation's capital is cut off from the outside world. Viriginia has seceded and Maryland has ordered the burning of railroad bridges north of Baltimore and militias had torn up feeder rail lines to Annapolis. The populace expected imminent attack and Washington's African-American poplulation faced the prospect of enslavement.


Washington's plight was the subject of patriotic stationary. Here General Winfield Scott is depicted as a fierce looking bulldog daring the mutt of Jefferson Davis to take the prize meat of Washington.

The article can be accessed here.

 

[jazzeum]

April 22, 1861. James Gordon Bennett, the owner and editor of the New York Herald, the most important newspaper in the United States at the time and a persistent critic of Lincoln, decided he needed to lend his support to Lincoln. He sent Henry Villard, one of his reporters who had come to know Lincoln well during the 1860 campaign, to offer Lincoln a deal. The Administration needed all the help it could get in those early turbulent days. Bennett would offer Lincoln a yacht in exchange for appointing his son to be a Lieutenant.


James Gordon Bennett

Lincoln wisely accepted the proposal and Lincoln would never forget that the Herald had stood by him at a crucial moment in the history of the nation.

The article can be accessed here.

 

[jazzeum]

April 23, 1861. The 13th National Guard from Brooklyn, New York marches down Fulton Street to the harbor to set sail for action in the South. Accompanying the 13th were African-Americans who acted as servants to officers or worked in other support roles. Their presence generally went unreported by the press and undocumented by the regimental historian. One of these men was Alexander Herritage Newton, originally from New Bern, North Carolina, his mother a freed slave and his father still a slave. He went with the 13th even though he was not allowed to join the Army.


Alexander Newton (left) as a quartermaster sergeant with the 29th Connecticut Infantry, which he joined in December 1863

This article, about Mr. Newton and his service to the United States can be accessed here.

 

[jazzeum]

A reflection from Professor Gary Gallagher on what the Union was fighting for: the Union! He quotes the following from Secretary of State Seward, "Their great work is the preservation of the Union and in that, the saving of popular government for the world."

Professor Gallagher postulates that the Union is what people fought for and everything else was secondary but a means to the end.


An illustration from Harper’s Weekly contrasting Union, which leads to progress and prosperity, with secession, which leads to destruction and poverty

The article can be accessed here.