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Echoes of Reconstruction: A High Profile Case Is Being Prosecuted Under the Enforcement Act of 1870
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. The Enforcement Act of 1870 was written to protect the democratic system during the Reconstruction Era from white supremacist conspiracies designed to take away the right to vote or other civil rights from newly enfranchised former slaves. The Act has drawn some attention […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Scientific Racism & “Proof” that Black Children Don’t Belong in Schools With White Children
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. From the conservative Democratic newspaper the Yorkville Enquirer of South Carolina comes the opinion of science in favor of racial segregation and white superiority. This South Carolina newspaper quotes a letter from Elliot Coues, an army surgeon from New Hampshire who […]
Read more...Echoes of First Bull Run: Words of Battle
Yesterday on the 162nd anniversary of First Bull Run (Manassas), I paged through that battle book from the Voices of the Civil War series. Scanning the different primary source excerpts, I had an idea. What if I pulled the dialog quotes out of the primary sources and put those quotes into a document? Instead of […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in Defense of the 14th Amendment
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain became Governor of Maine on January 2, 1867. He had risen to prominence as a heroic Union officer at Gettysburg. In his first Annual Address, the former general discussed the meaning of the Civil War and the purpose […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Congratulating Virginia for Rejecting Black Citizenship
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. On January 9, 1867, Virginia rejected the proposed 14th Amendment. The Amendment granted United States citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including former slaves, regardless of race. It also encouraged the granting of the right to vote to African […]
Read more...April 2023 Maine at War blog posts
In April 2023 my Maine at War blog examined topics ranging from memories of Shiloh to disease creating promotion opportunities to army recruiters falling all over each other while competing for the same warm bodies in autumn 1861. April 5, 2023: Echoes of Shiloh and Maine On the 161st anniversary of the battle of Shiloh, […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Reconstructing a Black Refugee Camp Destroyed by a Union Commander
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Last month I wrote about the mass expulsion of Black refugees from a Union camp and the horrible harm inflicted on the expelled families. This month, I wanted to discuss what happened after the Camp Nelson expulsions. The November 1864 expulsions […]
Read more...Civil War Surprises—The Blockade Proclamation: An Act of International War
One week after the fall of Fort Sumter, April 19, 1861, President Lincoln issued an emergency war proclamation implementing a seaborn blockade of the Confederacy, one of his first major decisions. This was a bold and contentious strategy for a novice commander in chief who was determined to interdict ocean commerce with states in rebellion, […]
Read more...Echoes of Reconstruction: Camp Nelson—Place of Refuge, Place of Death
Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. I am a fan of the Emerging Civil War Podcast. I was particularly happy this month when I found out that Steve Phan of the National Park Service would be speaking about the new Camp Nelson National Monument in Kentucky. Chris […]
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