Rod Andrew Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823232024
- eISBN:
- 9780823240494
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823232024.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter cannot hope to be a complete biography of Wade Hampton's life, nor even of his postwar political career. It aims to show, however, that the biographical ...
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This chapter cannot hope to be a complete biography of Wade Hampton's life, nor even of his postwar political career. It aims to show, however, that the biographical perspective is essential to a complete understanding of the nature and roots of Lost Cause mythology in the postwar South. It also argues that the roots of the Lost Cause can be found in the experiences of the war years. The Lost Cause legend was not simply a postbellum reaction to racial and social change, a deliberately dishonest means to reestablish white supremacy. For Wade Hampton, one of the major spokesmen of Lost Cause mythology in the late-19th century, the Lost Cause represented a persistent, deeply felt need to find validation and meaning in all that he had suffered and in all that his beloved had given for the Confederate cause. The experience of war and tragedy was so deeply engrained in Hampton's mind that it influenced his understanding of postwar political and social issues. It was not always the other way around. Historians remember Hampton as a soldier and politician, but rarely as a distraught father holding his dying son. Unless we remember that part of his life as well, we may never truly understand his postwar political assumptions or his motivations in espousing the Lost Cause.Less
This chapter cannot hope to be a complete biography of Wade Hampton's life, nor even of his postwar political career. It aims to show, however, that the biographical perspective is essential to a complete understanding of the nature and roots of Lost Cause mythology in the postwar South. It also argues that the roots of the Lost Cause can be found in the experiences of the war years. The Lost Cause legend was not simply a postbellum reaction to racial and social change, a deliberately dishonest means to reestablish white supremacy. For Wade Hampton, one of the major spokesmen of Lost Cause mythology in the late-19th century, the Lost Cause represented a persistent, deeply felt need to find validation and meaning in all that he had suffered and in all that his beloved had given for the Confederate cause. The experience of war and tragedy was so deeply engrained in Hampton's mind that it influenced his understanding of postwar political and social issues. It was not always the other way around. Historians remember Hampton as a soldier and politician, but rarely as a distraught father holding his dying son. Unless we remember that part of his life as well, we may never truly understand his postwar political assumptions or his motivations in espousing the Lost Cause.
Caroline E. Janney
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807831762
- eISBN:
- 9781469602226
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807882702_janney
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and ...
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Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, this book restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. It shows that, long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. This exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.Less
Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, this book restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. It shows that, long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. This exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.
Michael J. Goleman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812049
- eISBN:
- 9781496812087
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812049.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict, Civil ...
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Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and finally ending in the late nineteenth century. The social identity studied in this book focuses primarily on how Mississippians thought of their place within a national context, whether as Americans, Confederates, or both. During the period in question, radical transformations within the state forced Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing within the Union. Tracing the evolution of Mississippians’ social identity from 1850 through the end of the decade uncovers why white Mississippians felt the need to create the Lost Cause legend and shaped the way they constructed it. At the same time, black Mississippians tried to etch their place within the Union and as part of American society, yet continually faced white supremacist backlash. Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the creation of Mississippi’s Lost Cause and black social identity and how those cultural hallmarks continue to impact the state into the twenty-first century.Less
Your Heritage Will Still Remain details how Mississippians constructed their social identity in the aftermath of the crises that transformed the state beginning with the sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and finally ending in the late nineteenth century. The social identity studied in this book focuses primarily on how Mississippians thought of their place within a national context, whether as Americans, Confederates, or both. During the period in question, radical transformations within the state forced Mississippians to embrace, deny, or rethink their standing within the Union. Tracing the evolution of Mississippians’ social identity from 1850 through the end of the decade uncovers why white Mississippians felt the need to create the Lost Cause legend and shaped the way they constructed it. At the same time, black Mississippians tried to etch their place within the Union and as part of American society, yet continually faced white supremacist backlash. Your Heritage Will Still Remain offers insights into the creation of Mississippi’s Lost Cause and black social identity and how those cultural hallmarks continue to impact the state into the twenty-first century.
Stephen R. Haynes
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195142792
- eISBN:
- 9780199834280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195142799.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter explores the use of the story of Noah's sons and related passages in the biblical exposition of Benjamin M. Palmer (1818–1902), a representative proslavery intellectual and leader in the ...
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This chapter explores the use of the story of Noah's sons and related passages in the biblical exposition of Benjamin M. Palmer (1818–1902), a representative proslavery intellectual and leader in the southern Presbyterian Church from the 1850s until his death in 1902. Palmer was not only an influential advocate of slavery and secession but also an apostle of the South's Lost Cause following the Civil War. The role of Ham's curse is traced through Palmer's writings before, during, and after the Civil War, through which it is demonstrated that, with the demise of American slavery, Genesis 9–11 was utilized to justify racial segregation. The postbellum need for a new system of domination for dealing with the African majority in the South corresponds to a shift in Palmer's reading of Genesis from Ham the impudent son to Nimrod the rebellious tyrant who ignored the separation of peoples instituted by God following the flood.Less
This chapter explores the use of the story of Noah's sons and related passages in the biblical exposition of Benjamin M. Palmer (1818–1902), a representative proslavery intellectual and leader in the southern Presbyterian Church from the 1850s until his death in 1902. Palmer was not only an influential advocate of slavery and secession but also an apostle of the South's Lost Cause following the Civil War. The role of Ham's curse is traced through Palmer's writings before, during, and after the Civil War, through which it is demonstrated that, with the demise of American slavery, Genesis 9–11 was utilized to justify racial segregation. The postbellum need for a new system of domination for dealing with the African majority in the South corresponds to a shift in Palmer's reading of Genesis from Ham the impudent son to Nimrod the rebellious tyrant who ignored the separation of peoples instituted by God following the flood.
Michael J. Goleman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812049
- eISBN:
- 9781496812087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812049.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter examines Mississippi’s Lost Cause legend and argues that its creation stemmed from a desire to produce a positive identity in the eyes of the rest of the nation, and more importantly, to ...
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This chapter examines Mississippi’s Lost Cause legend and argues that its creation stemmed from a desire to produce a positive identity in the eyes of the rest of the nation, and more importantly, to posterity. The Lost Cause legend housed in historical writings and memoirs proved to have a powerful influence in the social and cultural identity of the state, with its white residents embracing the legend well into the twenty-first century. In creating the Lost Cause legend, conservative Mississippians blamed Reconstruction and blacks for creating any negative image of the state. In addition to justifying secession and the Civil War, the Lost Cause legend argued for the merits and reasons behind a white supremacist social order and warnings of failing to heed such a course. In the process of losing their freedoms through the institution of segregation, black Mississippians created a conflicting dual identity as Americans and blacks who endured the worst of the American experience.Less
This chapter examines Mississippi’s Lost Cause legend and argues that its creation stemmed from a desire to produce a positive identity in the eyes of the rest of the nation, and more importantly, to posterity. The Lost Cause legend housed in historical writings and memoirs proved to have a powerful influence in the social and cultural identity of the state, with its white residents embracing the legend well into the twenty-first century. In creating the Lost Cause legend, conservative Mississippians blamed Reconstruction and blacks for creating any negative image of the state. In addition to justifying secession and the Civil War, the Lost Cause legend argued for the merits and reasons behind a white supremacist social order and warnings of failing to heed such a course. In the process of losing their freedoms through the institution of segregation, black Mississippians created a conflicting dual identity as Americans and blacks who endured the worst of the American experience.
Gary W. Gallagher
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832752
- eISBN:
- 9781469605838
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807898444_waugh.11
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter traces the cinematic history of the heroic Lost Cause narrative created by ex-Confederates in the postwar years. It argues that after a long ascendancy established by The Birth of a ...
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This chapter traces the cinematic history of the heroic Lost Cause narrative created by ex-Confederates in the postwar years. It argues that after a long ascendancy established by The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939), the Lost Cause fell out of favor beginning in the mid-1960s—only to reappear in Gods and Generals, which was released shortly before Cold Mountain in 2003. Those two films revealed that competing memories of the Confederacy remained viable in a Hollywood that, just a few years earlier, seemingly had banished the Lost Cause.Less
This chapter traces the cinematic history of the heroic Lost Cause narrative created by ex-Confederates in the postwar years. It argues that after a long ascendancy established by The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939), the Lost Cause fell out of favor beginning in the mid-1960s—only to reappear in Gods and Generals, which was released shortly before Cold Mountain in 2003. Those two films revealed that competing memories of the Confederacy remained viable in a Hollywood that, just a few years earlier, seemingly had banished the Lost Cause.
Lindsey Apple
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134109
- eISBN:
- 9780813135908
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134109.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Devastated economically and psychologically by the war, the Clay family, like the South, desperately needed an anchor to provide emotional stability and a foundation for recovery. The South developed ...
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Devastated economically and psychologically by the war, the Clay family, like the South, desperately needed an anchor to provide emotional stability and a foundation for recovery. The South developed the Lost Cause with Robert E. Lee as the model of southern virtue and nobility. The Clays adopted many of the principles of the Lost Cause, but they created their own “marble man,” a new Henry Clay, as noble and virtuous as Lee but more national in his scope. The architects were primarily women, and that new image, a collective memory, guided the Clays into an uncertain future, providing an avenue for the return to the Union, a sense of family importance, and a curriculum for the education of each new generation.Less
Devastated economically and psychologically by the war, the Clay family, like the South, desperately needed an anchor to provide emotional stability and a foundation for recovery. The South developed the Lost Cause with Robert E. Lee as the model of southern virtue and nobility. The Clays adopted many of the principles of the Lost Cause, but they created their own “marble man,” a new Henry Clay, as noble and virtuous as Lee but more national in his scope. The architects were primarily women, and that new image, a collective memory, guided the Clays into an uncertain future, providing an avenue for the return to the Union, a sense of family importance, and a curriculum for the education of each new generation.
Michael J. Goleman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812049
- eISBN:
- 9781496812087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812049.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter recaps the effects of Mississippi’s Lost Cause legend through the beginnings of the twenty-first century. As blacks within the state chipped away at the white supremacist social order, ...
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This chapter recaps the effects of Mississippi’s Lost Cause legend through the beginnings of the twenty-first century. As blacks within the state chipped away at the white supremacist social order, they failed to break the cultural impact and influence of the Lost Cause legend still celebrated in the state. Conservative Mississippians persist in clinging to the Lost Cause legend, fighting vehemently against the Civil Rights movement and the end of segregation, as well as anything that puts their combined Confederate/American identity in jeopardy.Less
This chapter recaps the effects of Mississippi’s Lost Cause legend through the beginnings of the twenty-first century. As blacks within the state chipped away at the white supremacist social order, they failed to break the cultural impact and influence of the Lost Cause legend still celebrated in the state. Conservative Mississippians persist in clinging to the Lost Cause legend, fighting vehemently against the Civil Rights movement and the end of segregation, as well as anything that puts their combined Confederate/American identity in jeopardy.
Thomas J. Brown
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469620954
- eISBN:
- 9781469623122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469620954.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter discusses the renovation of Fort Sumter within the recentering of the Charleston economy on tourism. The shaping of the Fort Sumter National Monument was the single largest restoration ...
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This chapter discusses the renovation of Fort Sumter within the recentering of the Charleston economy on tourism. The shaping of the Fort Sumter National Monument was the single largest restoration project of mid-twentieth-century Charleston. While federal historical interpretation initially reinforced the landscape of Confederate memory built up in the city since the death of John C. Calhoun, intersectional partnership also heightened the vulnerability of the Lost Cause to a national ideological upheaval. The centennial anniversary of the first shots of the war exploded into a symbolically significant episode in the acceleration of the civil rights revolution. The ensuing transformation of Civil War memory would repudiate the Charleston Renaissance premises for the veneration of Fort Sumter.Less
This chapter discusses the renovation of Fort Sumter within the recentering of the Charleston economy on tourism. The shaping of the Fort Sumter National Monument was the single largest restoration project of mid-twentieth-century Charleston. While federal historical interpretation initially reinforced the landscape of Confederate memory built up in the city since the death of John C. Calhoun, intersectional partnership also heightened the vulnerability of the Lost Cause to a national ideological upheaval. The centennial anniversary of the first shots of the war exploded into a symbolically significant episode in the acceleration of the civil rights revolution. The ensuing transformation of Civil War memory would repudiate the Charleston Renaissance premises for the veneration of Fort Sumter.
Teresa Barnett
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226059600
- eISBN:
- 9780226059747
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226059747.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter examines the historical relic’s role in the memorial activities of the defeated South. It discusses the establishment at the turn of the twentieth century of museums that enshrined the ...
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This chapter examines the historical relic’s role in the memorial activities of the defeated South. It discusses the establishment at the turn of the twentieth century of museums that enshrined the ideology of the Lost Cause and the way those museums were structured around the metaphor of a collective memory cabinet whose objects could facilitate their viewers’ grief and mourning not only for the lives lost in the war but for the loss of the Confederacy’s military and political sovereignty. It further describes the ways that relics were deployed in public commemorations and rituals not only as a means of mourning white Southerners’ losses but as a means of reworking and transforming defeat’s legacy of shame and humiliation.Less
This chapter examines the historical relic’s role in the memorial activities of the defeated South. It discusses the establishment at the turn of the twentieth century of museums that enshrined the ideology of the Lost Cause and the way those museums were structured around the metaphor of a collective memory cabinet whose objects could facilitate their viewers’ grief and mourning not only for the lives lost in the war but for the loss of the Confederacy’s military and political sovereignty. It further describes the ways that relics were deployed in public commemorations and rituals not only as a means of mourning white Southerners’ losses but as a means of reworking and transforming defeat’s legacy of shame and humiliation.
Michael J. Goleman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812049
- eISBN:
- 9781496812087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812049.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter outlines how social identity is formed by groups as a means to create a positive social construct of themselves. Mississippians, white and black, during the sectional conflict, Civil ...
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This chapter outlines how social identity is formed by groups as a means to create a positive social construct of themselves. Mississippians, white and black, during the sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction, fashioned new social identities as external events fractured and threatened the status quo. The resultant group identity culminated in a white social identity encapsulated in the Lost Cause that celebrated their American and Confederate heritage.Less
This chapter outlines how social identity is formed by groups as a means to create a positive social construct of themselves. Mississippians, white and black, during the sectional conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction, fashioned new social identities as external events fractured and threatened the status quo. The resultant group identity culminated in a white social identity encapsulated in the Lost Cause that celebrated their American and Confederate heritage.
Paul D. Escott
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780813049410
- eISBN:
- 9780813050188
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813049410.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Chapter 2, “ Ideology and Memory: The Continuing Battles,” focuses on the post-war history of ideology and memory. It examines how and why the ideological battles of civil war persist into later ...
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Chapter 2, “ Ideology and Memory: The Continuing Battles,” focuses on the post-war history of ideology and memory. It examines how and why the ideological battles of civil war persist into later generations and how patterns of debate are affected by degrees of human determination or prejudices and by governmental structures or repression. For both countries it discusses honoring the dead, commemorations, ideology, and the role of institutions and generations. Dictatorial repression delayed debate in Spain, but eventually the generation of the nietos, or grandchildren, criticized “forgetting” or olvido in order to debate the issues of the war and open common graves, or fosas. In the United States northern indifference to racism allowed the South's Lost Cause ideology to triumph until the Civil Rights Movement. The chapter explains contrasting patterns of ideological influence in Spain and the United States.Less
Chapter 2, “ Ideology and Memory: The Continuing Battles,” focuses on the post-war history of ideology and memory. It examines how and why the ideological battles of civil war persist into later generations and how patterns of debate are affected by degrees of human determination or prejudices and by governmental structures or repression. For both countries it discusses honoring the dead, commemorations, ideology, and the role of institutions and generations. Dictatorial repression delayed debate in Spain, but eventually the generation of the nietos, or grandchildren, criticized “forgetting” or olvido in order to debate the issues of the war and open common graves, or fosas. In the United States northern indifference to racism allowed the South's Lost Cause ideology to triumph until the Civil Rights Movement. The chapter explains contrasting patterns of ideological influence in Spain and the United States.
Andrew R. Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195321289
- eISBN:
- 9780199869855
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195321289.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter explores the important role played by the jeremiad in antebellum and Civil War America. It begins with the national day of fasting proclaimed by President James Buchanan in January 1861. ...
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This chapter explores the important role played by the jeremiad in antebellum and Civil War America. It begins with the national day of fasting proclaimed by President James Buchanan in January 1861. Nineteenth‐century Jeremiahs lamented their society's moral state, looked to the example of the nation's founders, and called their fellow Americans to reform. Surrounding these narratives of decline were deeply‐rooted ideas of American chosenness, often fostered by varieties of millennialism that saw the United States as integral to the accomplishment of God's purposes in history. The chapter also explores two rival narratives to the mainstream American jeremiad during these years: an African‐American jeremiad that called down God's justice on white oppressors, and the Southern “Lost Cause” narrative, which viewed the South as a quintessential Christian civilization and lamented its defeat as a sign of God's disapproval of Southern immorality. The chapter concludes with an examination of Abraham Lincoln's unconventional employment of the jeremiad tradition.Less
This chapter explores the important role played by the jeremiad in antebellum and Civil War America. It begins with the national day of fasting proclaimed by President James Buchanan in January 1861. Nineteenth‐century Jeremiahs lamented their society's moral state, looked to the example of the nation's founders, and called their fellow Americans to reform. Surrounding these narratives of decline were deeply‐rooted ideas of American chosenness, often fostered by varieties of millennialism that saw the United States as integral to the accomplishment of God's purposes in history. The chapter also explores two rival narratives to the mainstream American jeremiad during these years: an African‐American jeremiad that called down God's justice on white oppressors, and the Southern “Lost Cause” narrative, which viewed the South as a quintessential Christian civilization and lamented its defeat as a sign of God's disapproval of Southern immorality. The chapter concludes with an examination of Abraham Lincoln's unconventional employment of the jeremiad tradition.
David T. Gleeson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617037986
- eISBN:
- 9781621039525
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617037986.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter argues that the Irish part in the southern war effort has probably been exaggerated. However, there is little question that the Irish insinuated themselves into the civic religion of the ...
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This chapter argues that the Irish part in the southern war effort has probably been exaggerated. However, there is little question that the Irish insinuated themselves into the civic religion of the Lost Cause, thus helping to frame how the regional past would be remembered.Less
This chapter argues that the Irish part in the southern war effort has probably been exaggerated. However, there is little question that the Irish insinuated themselves into the civic religion of the Lost Cause, thus helping to frame how the regional past would be remembered.
J. Vincent Lowery
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813042374
- eISBN:
- 9780813043494
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813042374.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Located just outside Atlanta, Stone Mountain, the penultimate monument to the Lost Cause, attracts close to five million visitors annually. While other essays on this monument talk about its early ...
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Located just outside Atlanta, Stone Mountain, the penultimate monument to the Lost Cause, attracts close to five million visitors annually. While other essays on this monument talk about its early development, J. Vincent Lowery’s essay offers an expanded analysis of the larger Stone Mountain Park. As Lowery demonstrates, race and even the Lost Cause are overshadowed by the nostalgic interpretations proffered by “Crossroads,” the replicated nineteenth-century southern town on the grounds of the park. In fact, visitors to the park are more likely to experience the romance of the Old South as the park’s owners seek to offer an experience of America’s pastoral and idyllic past.Less
Located just outside Atlanta, Stone Mountain, the penultimate monument to the Lost Cause, attracts close to five million visitors annually. While other essays on this monument talk about its early development, J. Vincent Lowery’s essay offers an expanded analysis of the larger Stone Mountain Park. As Lowery demonstrates, race and even the Lost Cause are overshadowed by the nostalgic interpretations proffered by “Crossroads,” the replicated nineteenth-century southern town on the grounds of the park. In fact, visitors to the park are more likely to experience the romance of the Old South as the park’s owners seek to offer an experience of America’s pastoral and idyllic past.
Merrill D. Peterson
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195096453
- eISBN:
- 9780199853939
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195096453.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter discusses the implications of Abraham Lincoln's death to the Reconstruction era. He was not able to fulfill his own reconstruction plan while he lived, as it was evident in his last ...
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This chapter discusses the implications of Abraham Lincoln's death to the Reconstruction era. He was not able to fulfill his own reconstruction plan while he lived, as it was evident in his last public address that he was appealing for the Louisiana plan. The public reception to Andrew Johnson's succession to the presidency. This chapter also discusses the Negro suffrage and the effect of Lincoln's death to the right of the Negroes, the effect of his assassination to the Lost Cause, the issues surrounding Lincoln's burial and memorial, and also the book published by Lizzy Keckley, Mrs. Lincoln's friend, about life inside the White House. The chapter also discusses the biographies written by some authors including Joseph H. Barrett, Josiah Holland and William H. Herndon.Less
This chapter discusses the implications of Abraham Lincoln's death to the Reconstruction era. He was not able to fulfill his own reconstruction plan while he lived, as it was evident in his last public address that he was appealing for the Louisiana plan. The public reception to Andrew Johnson's succession to the presidency. This chapter also discusses the Negro suffrage and the effect of Lincoln's death to the right of the Negroes, the effect of his assassination to the Lost Cause, the issues surrounding Lincoln's burial and memorial, and also the book published by Lizzy Keckley, Mrs. Lincoln's friend, about life inside the White House. The chapter also discusses the biographies written by some authors including Joseph H. Barrett, Josiah Holland and William H. Herndon.
Nina Silber
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469646541
- eISBN:
- 9781469646565
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646541.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The pro-Confederate Lost Cause memory of the Civil War continued to have considerable staying power during the 1930s, seen most notably in the popularity of the book and film versions of Gone With ...
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The pro-Confederate Lost Cause memory of the Civil War continued to have considerable staying power during the 1930s, seen most notably in the popularity of the book and film versions of Gone With the Wind. At the same time, the Lost Cause was adapted to fit the sensibilities of this era. Many white Americans, for example, were drawn to the suffering of Civil War era white southerners in light of the economic trials of the 30s. Conservatives also doubled-down on the Lost Cause narrative as they pushed back against aspects of the New Deal agenda, as well as a reawakened civil rights movement and anti-lynching campaign. Finally, conservatives adapted the Lost Cause story to target Northern radicals and communists as the same kind of agitators who punished white southerners during Reconstruction. Black activists and communists tried to expose the racist and unpatriotic underpinnings of the Lost Cause but often fell short.Less
The pro-Confederate Lost Cause memory of the Civil War continued to have considerable staying power during the 1930s, seen most notably in the popularity of the book and film versions of Gone With the Wind. At the same time, the Lost Cause was adapted to fit the sensibilities of this era. Many white Americans, for example, were drawn to the suffering of Civil War era white southerners in light of the economic trials of the 30s. Conservatives also doubled-down on the Lost Cause narrative as they pushed back against aspects of the New Deal agenda, as well as a reawakened civil rights movement and anti-lynching campaign. Finally, conservatives adapted the Lost Cause story to target Northern radicals and communists as the same kind of agitators who punished white southerners during Reconstruction. Black activists and communists tried to expose the racist and unpatriotic underpinnings of the Lost Cause but often fell short.
Otis W. Pickett
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496820471
- eISBN:
- 9781496820518
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496820471.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sociology of Religion
This chapter focuses on John Lafayette Girardeau, a Presbyterian leader who, after the Civil War, simultaneously worked to shape churchly reform and Lost Cause religiosity. Girardeau's postbellum ...
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This chapter focuses on John Lafayette Girardeau, a Presbyterian leader who, after the Civil War, simultaneously worked to shape churchly reform and Lost Cause religiosity. Girardeau's postbellum ecclesiastical reform in ordaining African Americans and pushing for their ecclesiastical equality places him among emancipationists. However, his work on the battlefield as a Confederate chaplain, his aid to the public in coping with death and destruction after the Civil War, and his service as pastor of an integrated church places him in the reconciliationist camp. Meanwhile, his work as a defender of the Lost Cause, which helped justify the racial violence perpetuated by Lost Cause adherents, places him within the emerging norms of a white supremacist vision. Ultimately, Girardeau's life and world presents a much more complex picture than his missionary activity, representative Calvinism, efforts toward ecclesiastical reform, or Lost Cause ideology reveal.Less
This chapter focuses on John Lafayette Girardeau, a Presbyterian leader who, after the Civil War, simultaneously worked to shape churchly reform and Lost Cause religiosity. Girardeau's postbellum ecclesiastical reform in ordaining African Americans and pushing for their ecclesiastical equality places him among emancipationists. However, his work on the battlefield as a Confederate chaplain, his aid to the public in coping with death and destruction after the Civil War, and his service as pastor of an integrated church places him in the reconciliationist camp. Meanwhile, his work as a defender of the Lost Cause, which helped justify the racial violence perpetuated by Lost Cause adherents, places him within the emerging norms of a white supremacist vision. Ultimately, Girardeau's life and world presents a much more complex picture than his missionary activity, representative Calvinism, efforts toward ecclesiastical reform, or Lost Cause ideology reveal.
Thomas J. Brown
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469620954
- eISBN:
- 9781469623122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469620954.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter focuses on two monuments in South Carolina, a marble statue honoring fallen Confederate soldiers and a bronze statue honoring Confederate women. The soldier monument declares that it has ...
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This chapter focuses on two monuments in South Carolina, a marble statue honoring fallen Confederate soldiers and a bronze statue honoring Confederate women. The soldier monument declares that it has been “ERECTED BY THE WOMEN OF SOUTH CAROLINA.” The monument to women answers that it was “REARED BY THE MEN OF THE STATE.” Together, these monuments naturalize the South Carolina statehouse and situate the public realm in a timeless order of sexual differentiation and harmony epitomized by the gendering force of war. The monuments also invite fuller examination of the Lost Cause as a public culture through which white southerners debated shifting interpretations of manhood and womanhood. The chapter argues that the application of evolutionary theory to Confederate remembrance accommodated considerable internal conflict and provided a historical synthesis for a wide range of racial, gender, religious, and class dynamics. The process of modernization invigorated the Lost Cause as an organic social myth.Less
This chapter focuses on two monuments in South Carolina, a marble statue honoring fallen Confederate soldiers and a bronze statue honoring Confederate women. The soldier monument declares that it has been “ERECTED BY THE WOMEN OF SOUTH CAROLINA.” The monument to women answers that it was “REARED BY THE MEN OF THE STATE.” Together, these monuments naturalize the South Carolina statehouse and situate the public realm in a timeless order of sexual differentiation and harmony epitomized by the gendering force of war. The monuments also invite fuller examination of the Lost Cause as a public culture through which white southerners debated shifting interpretations of manhood and womanhood. The chapter argues that the application of evolutionary theory to Confederate remembrance accommodated considerable internal conflict and provided a historical synthesis for a wide range of racial, gender, religious, and class dynamics. The process of modernization invigorated the Lost Cause as an organic social myth.
Caroline E. Janney
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807831762
- eISBN:
- 9781469602226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807882702_janney.4
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This book describes how historians and contemporary Americans have tended to forget the role the Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) played in crafting a positive memory of the Confederacy. When ...
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This book describes how historians and contemporary Americans have tended to forget the role the Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) played in crafting a positive memory of the Confederacy. When women have emerged as primary actors in what has become known as the Lost Cause, they do so only in the 1890s and early 1900s, with the United Daughters of the Confederacy. LMAs have essentially become either invisible or tangential to the development of the Lost Cause. This book restores these women's place in the historical narrative by exploring their role as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition in the post-Civil War South. Through a study of Virginia's LMAs from 1865 to 1915, it examines how and why middle- and upper-class southern white women came to shape the public rituals of Confederate memory, Reconstruction, and reconciliation.Less
This book describes how historians and contemporary Americans have tended to forget the role the Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) played in crafting a positive memory of the Confederacy. When women have emerged as primary actors in what has become known as the Lost Cause, they do so only in the 1890s and early 1900s, with the United Daughters of the Confederacy. LMAs have essentially become either invisible or tangential to the development of the Lost Cause. This book restores these women's place in the historical narrative by exploring their role as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition in the post-Civil War South. Through a study of Virginia's LMAs from 1865 to 1915, it examines how and why middle- and upper-class southern white women came to shape the public rituals of Confederate memory, Reconstruction, and reconciliation.
