One of the reasons why it is important for serious historians to publish in peer-reviewed journals is that it provides the community with stable reference points. Scholarly publications are intended to add to our knowledge of the past by providing rich interpretation along with supporting documents that can be verified. In this setting interpretation can [...]
Weary Clyburn
Looks like Earl Ijames is taking his “black Confederate” roadshow out once again. We first met Mr. Ijames, who works as a curator at the North Carolina Museum of History, in the summer of 2008 in a series of posts I did on Weary Clyburn [and here]. In a comment contained in the second link [...]
That’s according to a document in the pension bureau correspondence files under Union County and in the year 1930 – when Wary Clyburn died. A friend of mine in theNorth Carolina Department of Archives and History checked the yearly statement of pensioners produced by the Clerk of Court for the Auditor’s Office. The following information [...]
It looks like Earl Ijames is at it again. You may remember this past summer that Ijames – a curator at the N.C. Museum of History – was involved in a grave site dedication for Weary Clyburn, who supposedly served as a soldier in the Confederate army. I covered this story closely and offered a [...]
I finally got my hands on a copy of Weary Clyburn’s pension application from the North Carolina Department of Archives and History in Raleigh. You may remember that over the summer I did a series of posts on this Confederate slave who was to be honored by a local SCV chapter for his “service” to [...]
If interested, you can read this brief article which covers yesterday’s ceremony for the SCV’s new favorite son, Weary Clyburn. There is nothing in it that hasn’t been discussed already over the course of the past few days. Earl ljames is cited as an “expert” on the subject of black Confederates; he isn’t . The [...]
There is something profoundly disturbing about the concerted effort on the part of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to distort the past so as to assuage their deepest insecurities. A quick perusal of their websites and the uninformed are left believing that the Confederacy was anti-slavery and that free blacks and slaves were some of [...]
