The Militant South

[larry_cockerham]

Ole, Colt, Winchester and Remington seemed to know what to do. It's an ill wind that carries nothing for nobody.

[unionblue]

Larry,

No problem, my staunch Southern friend. I have learned much in our talks and debates and expect to lean a lot more.

In our own way, our different views are like the flying butteresses, directly oposite of each another, that by butting up one against the another, support the roof a great cathedral. Without them, there would be no support and the whole thing would just collapse.

Where would be the glory in that?

Press on, friend, press on, for who knows what will transpire one day. Therein lies the joy of debate, of questions and give-and-take. The indescribable joy of learning something I did not know before.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[unionblue]

And back to the main topic of this thread.

Some on-line reviews of the book itself can be found here:

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s02/franklin.html

And much more detailed and extensive reviews here:

http://personal.tcu.edu/~SWOODWORTH/Franklin.htm

In addition, I would like to offer the following:

The Militant South, by John Hope Franklin, give this quote, in the chapter titled, West Points of the South, page 156.

"One of the most eloquent statements regarding the role of military education in the impending crisis was made in 1854 by Richard Yeadon of Charleston. Urging the generous support of military schools, he said:

"The nature of our institution of domestic slavery and its exposure of us to hostile machinations, both at home and abroad, render it doubly incumbent on us and our whole sisterhood of Southern States to cherish a military spirit and to diffuse military science among our people - Thus prepared and harnessed for conflict, should conflict come either from "higher law" traitors to the union and the Constitution at home or from foreign foes, the South may defy the world in arms."

(Source: Self-Instructor (Charleston), March 1854, quoted in Rosser H. Taylor, Ante-Bellum South Carolina (Chapel Hill, 1842), p. 122. See also The Southern Literary Messenger, XXIV (April 1857), 247.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[unionblue]

samgrant,

Finally got my copy of the book, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, And The Civil War, by Chandra Manning.

Anytime you want to start a thread or begin talking about this book on an already established thread, I would love to begin as soon as possible.

Sincerely,
Unionblue

[samgrant]

I think I've mentioned it on at least 3 different threads, this one and "what motivated the CS soldier". I last posted about it in that "What they fought for" thread, I posted it there because it is inclusive of the attituded toward slavery by the Union soldiers as well as the Rebs (and also the 'Coloreds'). I did like that book.