Comments on: Well Done, John Schmutz http://cwmemory.com/2009/06/23/well-done-john-schmutz/ Where History, Heritage, and Education Intersect Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kevin Levin http://cwmemory.com/2009/06/23/well-done-john-schmutz/#comment-9696 Kevin Levin Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:02:40 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=4027#comment-9696 Vicki, Thanks for the Reynolds reference. Couple that with Charles Dew's _Apostles of Disunion_ (UVA Press, 2001) and we get a sense of the images that concerned white Southerners in the event of a Lincoln victory. Of course, as Dew shows the arguments of the secessionist commissioners proved to be insufficient in convincing the states in the Upper South that the Republicans represented an immediate threat, but that is not to say that white Southerners in this region did not identify with the fears expressed. Clearly, for many Confederates at the Crater the sight of blacks with rifles constituted a manifestation of their worst fears. Vicki,

Thanks for the Reynolds reference. Couple that with Charles Dew’s _Apostles of Disunion_ (UVA Press, 2001) and we get a sense of the images that concerned white Southerners in the event of a Lincoln victory. Of course, as Dew shows the arguments of the secessionist commissioners proved to be insufficient in convincing the states in the Upper South that the Republicans represented an immediate threat, but that is not to say that white Southerners in this region did not identify with the fears expressed. Clearly, for many Confederates at the Crater the sight of blacks with rifles constituted a manifestation of their worst fears.

]]> By: Vicki http://cwmemory.com/2009/06/23/well-done-john-schmutz/#comment-9695 Vicki Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:22:18 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=4027#comment-9695 According to Don Reynolds in _Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South_ (LSU, 2007), it was indeed these "apocalyptic visions" that helped lead Texas out of the Union in the first place, despite sizeable communities of Unionists in northern counties, the Hill Country (Germans), San Antonio, Austin, and Galveston, as well as pockets in other areas such as the Big Thicket. Even Sam Houston couldn't stop it once key newspaper editors pumped up the fear. I've read the newspapers, and I live between two burned towns--Henderson and Dallas. I'm sure I would have been afraid, too. The timing couldn't have been worse...and politicians such as Louis Wigfall and George Chilton took full advantage. Vicki Betts According to Don Reynolds in _Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South_ (LSU, 2007), it was indeed these “apocalyptic visions” that helped lead Texas out of the Union in the first place, despite sizeable communities of Unionists in northern counties, the Hill Country (Germans), San Antonio, Austin, and Galveston, as well as pockets in other areas such as the Big Thicket. Even Sam Houston couldn’t stop it once key newspaper editors pumped up the fear. I’ve read the newspapers, and I live between two burned towns–Henderson and Dallas. I’m sure I would have been afraid, too. The timing couldn’t have been worse…and politicians such as Louis Wigfall and George Chilton took full advantage.

Vicki Betts

]]> By: Kevin Levin http://cwmemory.com/2009/06/23/well-done-john-schmutz/#comment-9694 Kevin Levin Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:58:54 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=4027#comment-9694 Mike, The piece should be finished and sent to the magazine some time next week. Woodrow, I am also receiving those emails though I am not the author. I agreed to write a couple of entries for the project, but had to bow out owing to my schedule and other commitments. Unfortunately, I can't tell you who is writing those entries. Mike,

The piece should be finished and sent to the magazine some time next week.

Woodrow,

I am also receiving those emails though I am not the author. I agreed to write a couple of entries for the project, but had to bow out owing to my schedule and other commitments. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you who is writing those entries.

]]> By: Woodrowfan http://cwmemory.com/2009/06/23/well-done-john-schmutz/#comment-9693 Woodrowfan Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:41:53 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=4027#comment-9693 BTW, I get "Virginia Vignettes" in my email and the recent ones have been on The Crater. Aren't you writing a piece for the Virginia Encyclopedia? BTW, I get “Virginia Vignettes” in my email and the recent ones have been on The Crater. Aren’t you writing a piece for the Virginia Encyclopedia?

]]> By: Mike http://cwmemory.com/2009/06/23/well-done-john-schmutz/#comment-9692 Mike Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:27:00 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=4027#comment-9692 Congrads Kevin and I will be checking this out. Congrads Kevin and I will be checking this out.

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