Author Archives: kirks
Introduction
The causes behind the Civil War and the role of the Confederate States holds little debate among modern historians. However, after the end of hostilities in 1865 and continuing into… Read more »
The Confederate Constitution
(Richardson, James D. “Constitution of the Confederate States; March 11, 1861.” Published on the Avalon Project, Yale University. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp) Article 1, Section 9, Article 4 of the Confederate… Read more »
The Cornerstone Address
(Alexander H. Stephens, “Cornerstone Address, March 21, 1861 ” in The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, etc., vol. 1, ed. Frank Moore (New… Read more »
Changing the Story
(“A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi,” Currier & Ives, 1884. (Library of Congress)) As soon as the Civil War ended however, the Southern states and their leaders began changing… Read more »
Not helping…
(Thomas Nast, “Reconstruction and How It Works,” Harper’s Weekly, 1866, via HarpWeek.) On The Right Side: “I have been accused of being inimical to the true interests of the colored… Read more »
The Early bird…
(Early, Jubal A. “The Proceedings of the Southern Historical Convention: Address to the Southern Historical Convention.” The Southern Historical Society. August 14, 1873. 24) Jubal A. Early was on… Read more »
Contradicting Himself
(Davis, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Vol. 1. 2 vols. Gloucester, England: Dodo Press, 2008. 78) As the reader has seen earlier, the Confederacy was an… Read more »
The Counter-Argument
(Frederick Douglass, “Speech delivered in Madison Square, New York, Decoration Day.” 1877. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division) Abolitionists and some Northerners were quick to denounce the new stance of… Read more »
(Fleming, Walter L. “Jefferson Davis, The Negroes and the Negro Problem.” The Sewanee Review, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct., 1908), pp. 407-427) Despite the counter arguments being made, the myth… Read more »