In 1861. It started in these refugee camps. Im going to start with two stories. The first one might be familiar. The story of how the contraband decision got handed down. It happened Important Role virginia. Baker,ownsend, James Shepherd mallory get a boat where the union just arrived. There are confederates all around and these gentlemen had been building confederate fortifications for their master. They knew they were about to go to North Carolina and would be leaving their families and they decided to chance it. Next morning, a confederate soldier comes under flag of truce and says, please return the slaves. Were rebels really entitled . Werent they foreign country . You say you are a foreign country. Said, im confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. He even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. This spreads incredibly quickly. It is an in between status. Property likee of smuggled goods but you are a person. But whatever the ambiguities of contraband, it defini
The topic of the second panning is the stream of memory of the war which is often termed the lost cause. We have there three his torians, john cost can i Caroline Janey and ed air. I want to start the panel to talk about what the lost cause interpretation of the war meant and what are the principal tenants of the lost cause explanation for the coming of the war and the conduct of the war. I think its important that we talk about the origin of the term. It harkens back to Sir Walter Scott and the revolution or the rebellion of 1745. Its also important for people to realize while we today tend to think of it as a term it did originate during the war and used shortly after the war. It was a term that we used widely by former confederates in the generation after the war. It was in fact a magazine out of louisville kentucky. It said, defeated but not dishonored. It seems like a strange name to give something that youre in favor of. You know . Its sort of focusing on the lost part of it seem
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