History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern HistoryUniversity Press of Kentucky, 12.09.2010 - 416 Seiten Before his death in 1870, Robert E. Lee penned a letter to Col. Charles Marshall in which he argued that we must cast our eyes backward in times of turmoil and change, concluding that Òit is history that teaches us to hope.Ó Charles Pierce Roland, one of the nationÕs most distinguished and respected historians, has done exactly that, devoting his career to examining the SouthÕs tumultuous path in the years preceding and following the Civil War. History Teaches Us to Hope: Reflections on the Civil War and Southern History is an unprecedented compilation of works by the man the volume editor John David Smith calls a Òdogged researcher, gifted stylist, and keen interpreter of historical questions.ÓThroughout his career, Roland has published groundbreaking books, including The Confederacy (1960), The Improbable Era: The South since World War II (1976), and An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War (1991). In addition, he has garnered acclaim for two biographical studies of Civil War leaders: Albert Sidney Johnston (1964), a life of the top field general in the Confederate army, and Reflections on Lee (1995), a revisionist assessment of a great but frequently misunderstood general. The first section of History Teaches Us to Hope, ÒThe Man, The Soldier, The Historian,Ó offers personal reflections by Roland and features his famous ÒGI CharlieÓ speech, ÒA Citizen Soldier Recalls World War II.Ó Civil WarÐrelated writings appear in the following two sections, which include RolandÕs theories on the true causes of the war and four previously unpublished articles on Civil War leadership. The final section brings together RolandÕs writings on the evolution of southern history and identity, outlining his views on the persistence of a distinct southern culture and his belief in its durability. History Teaches Us to Hope is essential reading for those who desire a complete understanding of the Civil War and southern history. It offers a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary historian. |
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... slavery 133 Louisiana sugar planters and the civil War 147 Part Three: Civil War Leadership albert sidney Johnston and the Defense of the confederate West 163 The Generalship of robert e. Lee 175 robert e. Lee and the Leadership of ...
... slavery 133 Louisiana sugar planters and the civil War 147 Part Three: Civil War Leadership albert sidney Johnston and the Defense of the confederate West 163 The Generalship of robert e. Lee 175 robert e. Lee and the Leadership of ...
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... slaves; he focused more clearly on the experiences of the white masters than of the black slaves and the freedpeople. For example, roland described the sugar planters as “men of sound wit who tempered their lives with vigorous play, set ...
... slaves; he focused more clearly on the experiences of the white masters than of the black slaves and the freedpeople. For example, roland described the sugar planters as “men of sound wit who tempered their lives with vigorous play, set ...
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... slave accounts " constituted " the most glaring gap in my sources . " This “ defi- ciency , " he added , “ robs the book of an adequate description of their [ the slaves ' ] feelings and motivations . " 13 Even so , to a certain degree ...
... slave accounts " constituted " the most glaring gap in my sources . " This “ defi- ciency , " he added , “ robs the book of an adequate description of their [ the slaves ' ] feelings and motivations . " 13 Even so , to a certain degree ...
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... slaves to maximize the number of effectives for the battle . Roland faulted Johnston for misjudging the amount of support he would muster for the Confederate cause in Kentucky and for dividing his army ( and thus losing so many troops ) ...
... slaves to maximize the number of effectives for the battle . Roland faulted Johnston for misjudging the amount of support he would muster for the Confederate cause in Kentucky and for dividing his army ( and thus losing so many troops ) ...
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... slave codes . " Southern forests were too deep and nights too dark to prevent the slaves ' moving about . " They learned to read and write , married , and maintained families . Having said this , Simkins ad- mitted that " humane ...
... slave codes . " Southern forests were too deep and nights too dark to prevent the slaves ' moving about . " They learned to read and write , married , and maintained families . Having said this , Simkins ad- mitted that " humane ...
Inhalt
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A Citizen Soldier Recalls World War II | 75 |
In Retrospect | 89 |
Why the War Came | 93 |
Louisana and Secession | 107 |
The Resort to Arms | 117 |
A Slaveowners Defense of Slavery | 133 |
Robert E Lee and the Leadership of Character | 207 |
or Lee in Caricature | 221 |
Lee and Jackson | 235 |
The South Americas WillotheWisp Eden | 253 |
The South of the Agrarians | 269 |
Happy Chandler | 285 |
Change and Tradition in Southern Society | 303 |
The EverVanishing South | 319 |
Louisiana Sugar Planters and the Civil War | 147 |
Albert Sidney Johnston and the Defense of the Confederate West | 163 |
The Generalship of Robert E Lee | 175 |
Copyrights and Permissions | 337 |
Index | 339 |
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Seite 86 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.
Seite 99 - Woe unto the world because of offences ; for it must needs be that offences come, but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.
Seite 253 - For the kind spring which but salutes us here, Inhabits there and courts them all the year ; Ripe fruits and blossoms on the same trees live, At once they promise what at once they give ; So sweet the air, so moderate the clime, None sickly lives or dies before his time ; Heaven sure has kept this spot of earth uncurst To show how all things were created first.
Seite 265 - Rollin G. Osterweis, Romanticism and Nationalism in the Old South.
Seite 99 - WHICH IN THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD MUST NEEDS COME BUT WHICH HAVING CONTINUED THROUGH HIS APPOINTED TIME HE NOW WILLS TO REMOVE AND THAT HE GIVES TO BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH THIS TERRIBLE WAR AS THE WOE DUE TO THOSE BY WHOM THE OFFENSE CAME SHALL WE DISCERN THEREIN ANY DEPARTURE FROM THOSE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES WHICH THE BELIEVERS IN A LIVING GOD ALWAYS ASCRIBE TO HIM.
Seite 122 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Seite 254 - When our manufactures are grown to a certain perfection, as they soon will under the fostering care of Government, we will no longer experience these evils. The farmer will find a ready market for his surplus produce ; and, what is almost of equal consequence, a certain and cheap supply of all his wants.
Seite 237 - If I were on my death-bed to-morrow," he said to General Preston, long before the breaking out of the war, "and the President of the United States should tell me that a great battle was to be fought for the liberty or slavery of the country, and asked my judgment as to the ability of a commander, I would say with my dying breath, 'Let it be Robert E. Lee.
Seite 215 - I will commence this holy day by writing to you. My heart is filled with gratitude to God for the unspeakable mercies with which He has blessed us in this day; for those He has granted us from the beginning of Life, and particularly for those he has vouchsafed us during the past year. What should have become of us without His crowning help and protection ? Oh ! if our people would only...
Seite 247 - Give him my affectionate regards, and tell him to make haste and get well and come back to me as soon as he can. He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.