Reconstructed Rebel

[rbortega]

Did anybody have a Confederate ancestor who would be considered a Reconstructed Rebel? What I mean by this is whether or not after the war your ancestor distanced himself from his service or did not buy into the post war Lost Cause myth.

 

[CSA Today]

Did anybody have a Confederate ancestor who would be considered a Reconstructed Rebel? What I mean by this is whether or not after the war your ancestor distanced himself from his service or did not buy into the post war Lost Cause myth.

No scalawags among my ancestors.

"You have no right to ask, or expect that she will at once profess unbounded love to that Union from which for four years she tried to escape at the cost of her best blood and all her treasure. Nor can you believe her to be so unutterably hypocritical, so base, as to declare that the flag of the Union has already surpassed in her heart the place which has so long been sacred to the 'Southern Cross.' "
Wade Hampton

 

[Will Posey]

Reconstruction did not "take" with my Confederate ancestors.

Will

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

Did anybody have a Confederate ancestor who would be considered a Reconstructed Rebel? What I mean by this is whether or not after the war your ancestor distanced himself from his service or did not buy into the post war Lost Cause myth.

Many of mine in upper east Tennessee followed the lead of John S. Mosby and James Longstreet and became Republicans. Don't believe they ever held to the " Lost Cause. " theory. None I'm aware of had the Southern Cross marker on their graves. In later years their descendants placed Confederate markers on some of their graves. I believe most in my part of the State wanted to blend back into society and put their lives back together. Unionists endured bitter persecution in the beginning of the war and decided to get even at it's end. A number of east Tennessee Confederates left the State to get away from that. A different story for my Confederate kin in western North Carolina ! Most of their descendants are still Rebels ! LOL !!!!

 

[Barrycdog]

I am not sure about what you call lost cause myth. Most soldiers who could came back to rebuild their live and homes after the war. Take Evan P. Howell for instance. He had a saw mill in Milton County. He was revered by the people of Gwinnett County and he named the City of Duluth in 1876. Later he helped recover the gold dome in Atlanta, Became editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Howell mill Road is named for him and his son Clark Howell wrote a history of Atlanta and had a ship named for him. Some of the greatest accomplishments made by cofederate veterans were made after the war.

Coca Cola - Johnathan Styth Pemberton
Atlanta Journal and Constitution ( although you will never hear them admit it) founded by Col Carey Styles, William Hemphill, and later editor Evan P. Howell. Edwin Hodge was the founder of the Atlanta, Journal. all veterans,
Many cities and towns are named for them because thay had the right stuff. The courage and fortitude to keep going.,

 

[proud texan]

Mine just went back to farmin'