Comments on: Edward Porter Alexander Comes Through Again http://cwmemory.com/2009/07/14/edward-porter-alexander-comes-through-again/ Where History, Heritage, and Education Intersect Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jimmy Price http://cwmemory.com/2009/07/14/edward-porter-alexander-comes-through-again/#comment-10208 Jimmy Price Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:37:59 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=4200#comment-10208 If anyone out there is interested, Petersburg National Battlefield will be having a series of talks, tours, and living history demonstrations in honor of the 145th Anniversary of the Crater on August 1st & 2nd. It ain't Amsterdam, but... If anyone out there is interested, Petersburg National Battlefield will be having a series of talks, tours, and living history demonstrations in honor of the 145th Anniversary of the Crater on August 1st & 2nd. It ain’t Amsterdam, but…

]]> By: Craig http://cwmemory.com/2009/07/14/edward-porter-alexander-comes-through-again/#comment-10168 Craig Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:07:30 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=4200#comment-10168 Kevin, Did you know Don Bloom when you were at ASMS? He was a TA in the English department where I finished my undergrad and attended grad school. Its quite interesting to me to see that Mobile played a role in shaping your perception of the South. My great great grandfather died from the Yellow Fever he acquired in the swamps following the Battle of Spanish Fort. Ive been puzzled for some time by how incidental the fall of Mobile has been in the prevailing narrative of the war. Is the fall of Mobile related in some way to your concern about Southern perceptions of black soldiers as participants in a slave insurrection? Kevin,

Did you know Don Bloom when you were at ASMS? He was a TA in the English department where I finished my undergrad and attended grad school.

Its quite interesting to me to see that Mobile played a role in shaping your perception of the South. My great great grandfather died from the Yellow Fever he acquired in the swamps following the Battle of Spanish Fort. Ive been puzzled for some time by how incidental the fall of Mobile has been in the prevailing narrative of the war. Is the fall of Mobile related in some way to your concern about Southern perceptions of black soldiers as participants in a slave insurrection?

]]> By: Matt McKeon http://cwmemory.com/2009/07/14/edward-porter-alexander-comes-through-again/#comment-10136 Matt McKeon Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:44:04 +0000 http://cwmemory.com/?p=4200#comment-10136 Kevin, While the USCT members felt they were fighting against slavery, the way they were fighting was not encouraging revolutions, or enabling slave revolts, they were fighting the armed forces of the Confederacy as conventional troops. The Union government never pursued a policy of, for example, sending spies or arms to blacks on Southern Plantations, to spark armed resistance, among slaves. Confederate troops at the Crater and elsewhere may have seen servile insurrection, as the period phrase goes, but it was a script in their own heads. The paradigm among the USCTs was more like, you had to leave slavery, be transformed into a soldier, and then fight the Confederate army on de clar field, both to end slavery and become citizens. Kevin,
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the USCT members felt they were fighting against slavery, the way they were fighting was not encouraging revolutions, or enabling slave revolts, they were fighting the armed forces of the Confederacy as conventional troops.

The Union government never pursued a policy of, for example, sending spies or arms to blacks on Southern Plantations, to spark armed resistance, among slaves.

Confederate troops at the Crater and elsewhere may have seen servile insurrection, as the period phrase goes, but it was a script in their own heads. The paradigm among the USCTs was more like, you had to leave slavery, be transformed into a soldier, and then fight the Confederate army on de clar field, both to end slavery and become citizens.

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