Harper and author and teacher Edmondia Goodelle Highgate in Syracuse in 1864, male leaders downplayed their participation; Gardner flips the script by piecing together their likely remarks from their biographies and newspaper accounts of speeches they gave elsewhere. Even when they did not speak, women were not passive. In the published minutes, Erica L. Ball reads the regular offering of “thanks” to the ladies in attendance for their patriotism, influence, and “exertion” as indicative of “call-and-response” rituals that allowed women to be broadly engaged (155, 162). Daina Ramey Berry and Jermaine Thibodeaux imagine how the presence of female attendees at an 1883 convention in Austin changed the nature of a debate about how to respond to Texas’ anti-miscegenation law. Among the collection’s strongest essays is Psyche Williams-Forson’s, which brings to life the world of urban boardinghouses where delegates stayed carried on the conversations and debates begun in the meeting halls. Black women who ran boardinghouses were nineteenth-century American salonnières; they hosted convention leaders and likely shaped the nature of the debates that transpired in their homes and in the meeting halls. To find the records of the political work of feeding and sheltering convention attendees, Williams-Forson has identified ads female boardinghouse keepers placed in the papers. These sources fall outside of the CCP archive, but the work they document places women at the center of the history this collection seeks to highlight. Not all of the essays are aimed at recovering Black women’s intellectual and organizational labor, but they nonetheless hint at some of CCP collection’s stillas-yet-fully-realized potential. The section of Derick Spires’s essay that considers Julia Garnet’s influence over her husband, William Henry Garnet’s 1843 “Address to the Slaves,” opens the possibility to explore the editorial work of other activist-wives. Jim Casey’s relationship-mapping produces a host of new questions about overlapping or serial conference attendance and about how conventions responded to events on the ground. Surely, many more questions will arise as the CCP collection continues to grow and as scholars continue to mine it for patterns or anomalies that can help to bring this history of Black activism to life. Judith Giesberg Villanova University
哈珀和作家兼教师埃德蒙迪亚·古德尔·海格特在1864年的锡拉丘兹,男性领导人淡化了他们的参与;加德纳从他们的传记和报纸上报道的他们在其他地方发表的演讲中拼凑出可能的言论,从而改写了剧本。即使不说话,女性也不是被动的。在公开的会议记录中,艾丽卡·l·鲍尔(Erica L. Ball)读到,出席会议的女士们经常对她们的爱国主义、影响力和“努力”表示“感谢”,这表明了“呼吁与回应”仪式允许女性广泛参与(155,162)。Daina Ramey Berry和Jermaine Thibodeaux设想,1883年在奥斯汀举行的一次大会上,女性与会者的出现如何改变了一场关于如何应对德克萨斯州反通婚法的辩论的性质。这本文集中最精彩的文章之一是普赛克·威廉姆斯-福森(Psyche Williams-Forson)的文章,它将城市寄宿公寓的世界栩栩如生地展现出来,代表们在这里进行着从会议大厅开始的对话和辩论。经营寄宿公寓的黑人妇女是19世纪的美国沙龙;他们接待了大会的领导人,很可能塑造了在他们家里和会议大厅里发生的辩论的性质。为了找到为大会参加者提供食物和住所的政治工作记录,威廉姆斯-福森在报纸上找到了女性寄宿公寓管理员的广告。这些资料不属于中共档案馆,但它们所记录的工作将女性置于这个收藏试图突出的历史的中心。并非所有的文章都旨在恢复黑人妇女的智力和组织劳动,但它们仍然暗示了中共文集的一些尚未充分实现的潜力。德里克·斯皮尔斯的文章中有一部分考虑了朱莉娅·加内特对她丈夫的影响,即威廉·亨利·加内特1843年的《致奴隶的演说》,这为探索其他活动家妻子的编辑工作提供了可能性。吉姆·凯西(Jim Casey)的关系映射产生了一系列关于重叠或连续出席会议以及大会如何对实地事件作出反应的新问题。当然,随着中共藏品的不断增加,随着学者们继续挖掘其中的模式或异常现象,更多的问题将会出现,这些模式或异常现象有助于将这段黑人激进主义的历史带入生活。朱迪思·吉斯伯格维拉诺瓦大学
{"title":"True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Clayton J. Butler (review)","authors":"Jonathan A. Noyalas","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Harper and author and teacher Edmondia Goodelle Highgate in Syracuse in 1864, male leaders downplayed their participation; Gardner flips the script by piecing together their likely remarks from their biographies and newspaper accounts of speeches they gave elsewhere. Even when they did not speak, women were not passive. In the published minutes, Erica L. Ball reads the regular offering of “thanks” to the ladies in attendance for their patriotism, influence, and “exertion” as indicative of “call-and-response” rituals that allowed women to be broadly engaged (155, 162). Daina Ramey Berry and Jermaine Thibodeaux imagine how the presence of female attendees at an 1883 convention in Austin changed the nature of a debate about how to respond to Texas’ anti-miscegenation law. Among the collection’s strongest essays is Psyche Williams-Forson’s, which brings to life the world of urban boardinghouses where delegates stayed carried on the conversations and debates begun in the meeting halls. Black women who ran boardinghouses were nineteenth-century American salonnières; they hosted convention leaders and likely shaped the nature of the debates that transpired in their homes and in the meeting halls. To find the records of the political work of feeding and sheltering convention attendees, Williams-Forson has identified ads female boardinghouse keepers placed in the papers. These sources fall outside of the CCP archive, but the work they document places women at the center of the history this collection seeks to highlight. Not all of the essays are aimed at recovering Black women’s intellectual and organizational labor, but they nonetheless hint at some of CCP collection’s stillas-yet-fully-realized potential. The section of Derick Spires’s essay that considers Julia Garnet’s influence over her husband, William Henry Garnet’s 1843 “Address to the Slaves,” opens the possibility to explore the editorial work of other activist-wives. Jim Casey’s relationship-mapping produces a host of new questions about overlapping or serial conference attendance and about how conventions responded to events on the ground. Surely, many more questions will arise as the CCP collection continues to grow and as scholars continue to mine it for patterns or anomalies that can help to bring this history of Black activism to life. Judith Giesberg Villanova University","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"1 1","pages":"110 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77401851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In early February 1863, soldiers from the Seventeenth and Twenty-Third Regiments, South Carolina Volunteers (SCV) engaged in a fierce battle with each other. Both units were camped in North Carolina and were part of the same brigade that was commanded by Gen. Nathan George Evans, yet this did not prevent what one participant described as a scene of “desperate fighting” between the two regiments, in which “the balls flew thick and fast.” Fortunately, the fighting was not real, and the men exchanged balls made of snow rather than lead. Some of the officers of Evans’ Brigade were, however, already engaged in a very real and serious conflict with each other. David Jackson Logan, a member of the Seventeenth and a contributor to the Yorkville Enquirer, had noted the internecine strife a week prior to providing the above description of the snowball fight, explaining: “There is much bad feeling among the officers of our Brigade.”1 Two key figures within this conflict were Evans, the brigade’s commander, and Fitz William McMaster, the colonel of the Seventeenth SCV. Following the Battle of Kinston in mid-December 1862, McMaster headed up a petition signed by himself and thirty-seven other officers in the brigade requesting that they be transferred to some other command. Their desire to be
{"title":"“A Dead Cock in the Pit”: Masculine Rivalry, Manhood, and Honor in the Civil War South","authors":"P. Doyle","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"In early February 1863, soldiers from the Seventeenth and Twenty-Third Regiments, South Carolina Volunteers (SCV) engaged in a fierce battle with each other. Both units were camped in North Carolina and were part of the same brigade that was commanded by Gen. Nathan George Evans, yet this did not prevent what one participant described as a scene of “desperate fighting” between the two regiments, in which “the balls flew thick and fast.” Fortunately, the fighting was not real, and the men exchanged balls made of snow rather than lead. Some of the officers of Evans’ Brigade were, however, already engaged in a very real and serious conflict with each other. David Jackson Logan, a member of the Seventeenth and a contributor to the Yorkville Enquirer, had noted the internecine strife a week prior to providing the above description of the snowball fight, explaining: “There is much bad feeling among the officers of our Brigade.”1 Two key figures within this conflict were Evans, the brigade’s commander, and Fitz William McMaster, the colonel of the Seventeenth SCV. Following the Battle of Kinston in mid-December 1862, McMaster headed up a petition signed by himself and thirty-seven other officers in the brigade requesting that they be transferred to some other command. Their desire to be","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"19 1","pages":"105 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80821659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey and Sarah Lynn Patterson (review)","authors":"J. Giesberg","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"18 1","pages":"108 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84818296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells (review)","authors":"F. Towers","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"62 1","pages":"106 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83902977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War by Lorien Foote (review)","authors":"L. Gordon","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"53 1","pages":"115 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80615057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contesting Commemoration: The 1876 Centennial, Independence Day, and the Reconstruction-Era South by Jack Noe (review)","authors":"Krista Kinslow","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"2 1","pages":"119 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87938631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In October 1862 photographer and entrepreneur Mathew Brady launched an exhibition of photographs taken by Alexander Gardner at the Battle of Antietam. The exhibition, held at Brady’s New York City gallery and titled The Dead at Antietam, was the first of its kind in America.1 Among the photographs was Gardner’s Dead of Stonewall Jackson’s Brigade by the Rail Fence on the Hagerstown Pike (Fig. 1). The powerful image presents a startling glimpse of the battle. The contorted bodies of three Confederate soldiers lie next to a rail fence. Two of the three soldiers’ faces are not visible. Their legs flail in various directions, as if barely connected to their torsos. The soldier on the left is so twisted that he appears to be headless, his legs jutting out toward the viewer as his upper body pushes against the fence. His left arm reaches up, frozen in time as if he is reaching for a weapon or raising a hand to beg for assistance. On the right side of the photograph, another soldier is even more knotted. One leg bends as if the man was interrupted while trying to rise, his arm fixed forever in a cradled position against the fence. His head is almost indistinguishable from the foliage into which he has fallen, and his lower leg blends into the figure beside him. He still wears his hat. In the center of the group lies the only soldier whose face we might recognize. The agony of death demonstrated in the soldier’s twisted expression means that any small relief the viewer might
{"title":"Marketing The Dead of Antietam: Photographs of Death as a Cultural Commodity","authors":"A. Hazard","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"In October 1862 photographer and entrepreneur Mathew Brady launched an exhibition of photographs taken by Alexander Gardner at the Battle of Antietam. The exhibition, held at Brady’s New York City gallery and titled The Dead at Antietam, was the first of its kind in America.1 Among the photographs was Gardner’s Dead of Stonewall Jackson’s Brigade by the Rail Fence on the Hagerstown Pike (Fig. 1). The powerful image presents a startling glimpse of the battle. The contorted bodies of three Confederate soldiers lie next to a rail fence. Two of the three soldiers’ faces are not visible. Their legs flail in various directions, as if barely connected to their torsos. The soldier on the left is so twisted that he appears to be headless, his legs jutting out toward the viewer as his upper body pushes against the fence. His left arm reaches up, frozen in time as if he is reaching for a weapon or raising a hand to beg for assistance. On the right side of the photograph, another soldier is even more knotted. One leg bends as if the man was interrupted while trying to rise, his arm fixed forever in a cradled position against the fence. His head is almost indistinguishable from the foliage into which he has fallen, and his lower leg blends into the figure beside him. He still wears his hat. In the center of the group lies the only soldier whose face we might recognize. The agony of death demonstrated in the soldier’s twisted expression means that any small relief the viewer might","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"7 1","pages":"41 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89753711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town by Jill Ogline Titus (review)","authors":"S. Perritt","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"45 1","pages":"117 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87011435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein, and: Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union by David K. Thomson (review)","authors":"J. Reidy","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"6 1","pages":"112 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79593278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taking Profits, Making Myths: The Slave Trading Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest","authors":"Timothy S. Huebner","doi":"10.1353/cwh.2023.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2023.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43056,"journal":{"name":"CIVIL WAR HISTORY","volume":"96 1","pages":"42 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85729744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}