Jubal Early, the Lost Cause, and the Shaping of The Modern Historical Profession

[jgoodguy]

Finding the Source: Jubal Early, the Lost Cause, and the Shaping of The Modern Historical Profession

This is a terrific conversation between Professor Peter Carmichael, Dr. Ashley Whitehead Luskey, and Professor Katy Shively on Jubal Early and the lost cause lie and how they affected the historiog…

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[O' Be Joyful]

Finding the Source: Jubal Early, the Lost Cause, and the Shaping of The Modern Historical Profession

This is a terrific conversation between Professor Peter Carmichael, Dr. Ashley Whitehead Luskey, and Professor Katy Shively on Jubal Early and the lost cause lie and how they affected the historiog…

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More bad Longstreet memories.

He, I and

had more than a few arguments.

I will U.S. Grant that he knows his history shit.

 

[5fish]

here are some thoughts...

The Lost Cause - Encyclopedia Virginia

Six Tenets The Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War typically includes the following six assertions: 1. Secession, not slavery, . 2. African Americans were “faithful slaves,” loyal to their masters and the Confederate cause and unprepared for the responsibilities of freedom. 3. The...

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The term “Lost Cause” is not a product of today’s historians; rather, it appears to have been coined by Edward A. Pollard, an influential wartime editor of the Richmond Examiner. In 1866 Pollard published The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates, a justification of the Confederate war effort, prompting the popular use of the term.

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In 1867, one of the first Lost Cause periodicals emerged, a new weekly Richmond newspaper called the Southern Opinion. Established only three months after the federal Reconstruction Act by the avowed secessionist H. Rives Pollard, brother of Edward A. Pollard and also a wartime editor of the Richmond Examiner, the paper’s expressed purpose was to foster a distinctive Southern culture.

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In 1865 and 1866, Confederate women transformed their wartime soldiers’ aid associations into organizations bent on memorializing their Lost Cause. Claiming to be wives, mothers, and daughters in mourning, Southern white women of the Ladies’ Memorial Associations (LMAs) organized cemeteries for the more than 200,000 Confederate soldiers that remained in unidentified graves on the battlefields and established the annual tradition of Memorial Days—occasions on which thousands of ex-Confederates would gather publicly to eulogize their fallen soldiers and celebrate their failed cause. Relying on the mid-nineteenth-century assumption that women were naturally non-political, ex-Confederate men recognized that women might be best suited to take the lead in memorializing the Confederate cause.

AS we know it is now considered that it was Lee's General order No#9 that began the lost cause myth...

General Orders No. 9 - Encyclopedia Virginia

A handwritten copy of General Orders No. 9, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's famous farewell address to the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House on April 10, 1865, is signed by the general and includes an emendation—the word "conquest" in reference to the war has been crossed...

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[jgoodguy]

AS we know it is now considered that it was Lee's General order No#9 that began the lost cause myth...

General Orders No. 9 – Encyclopedia Virginia

IMHO penned this order to ensure a general surrender. A more blunt version offending Southern sensibilities might have led to years of conflict.

 

[5fish]

Here is this... It seems he was first to market...

Jubal A. Early (1816–1894) - Encyclopedia Virginia

Early Years West Point, From Above Washington Valley Looking down the River Jubal Anderson Early was born on November 3, 1816, in Rocky Mount, , Virginia, the son of Joab Early, a prominent farmer and politician, and Ruth Hairston, whose family owned many slaves. He graduated from the United...

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As long as Early was alive, one of his former soldiers wrote, “no man ever took up his pen to write a line about the great conflict without the fear of Jubal Early before his eyes.”

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Early advanced his view of the war in A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence (1866), the first such book by a leading general on either side; and Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War between the States, which was published posthumously in 1912.

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"The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy."
- Jubal Early

 

[jgoodguy]

Here is this... It seems he was first to market...

Jubal A. Early (1816–1894) - Encyclopedia Virginia

Early Years West Point, From Above Washington Valley Looking down the River Jubal Anderson Early was born on November 3, 1816, in Rocky Mount, , Virginia, the son of Joab Early, a prominent farmer and politician, and Ruth Hairston, whose family owned many slaves. He graduated from the United...

encyclopediavirginia.org

As long as Early was alive, one of his former soldiers wrote, “no man ever took up his pen to write a line about the great conflict without the fear of Jubal Early before his eyes.”

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Early advanced his view of the war in A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence (1866), the first such book by a leading general on either side; and Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War between the States, which was published posthumously in 1912.

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"The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy."
- Jubal Early

Jubal was early.

 

[O' Be Joyful]

Jubal was early.

and late.