Cavalry Charger
Major
- Joined
- Jan 24, 2017
I have noted on a couple of occasions here that women may be perceived as the 'instigators' for men to fight during the period of the Civil War. Actively encouraging men to fight, they created an expectation that men should do their duty or potentially suffer 'rejection' (for taking what would be considered at the time of the CW to be a less honorable course of action). Of course, we must discount men who were drafted into the army on either side in this instance.
Let me give an example:
' By the beginning of the American Civil War, Ezekiel had quit school and was engaged in the mercantile business when he decided to go to college. VMI, as a public college and then under a wartime regime, was one of the few institutions available to him at reasonable cost and considering his relatively poor academic preparation. His mother, Catherine de Castro Ezekiel, appreciated that the wartime situation might lead him to fight for the South. She admonished him, as she sent him off to VMI to learn the arts of war, that she wouldn't have a son who would not fight for his home and country.'
The man was Moses Jacob Ezekial, famous sculptor and one of the cadets who fought bravely at Newmarket.
According to the link below, his mother's attitude was considered courageous and benevolent in light of anti-Semitic sentiment which existed at the time.
Was she right or wrong to encourage her son to learn the art of war?
How often was a women's influence the reason for a man going to war?
How should women have responded to the threat of war?
http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/moses_ezekiel.html
Let me give an example:
' By the beginning of the American Civil War, Ezekiel had quit school and was engaged in the mercantile business when he decided to go to college. VMI, as a public college and then under a wartime regime, was one of the few institutions available to him at reasonable cost and considering his relatively poor academic preparation. His mother, Catherine de Castro Ezekiel, appreciated that the wartime situation might lead him to fight for the South. She admonished him, as she sent him off to VMI to learn the arts of war, that she wouldn't have a son who would not fight for his home and country.'
The man was Moses Jacob Ezekial, famous sculptor and one of the cadets who fought bravely at Newmarket.
According to the link below, his mother's attitude was considered courageous and benevolent in light of anti-Semitic sentiment which existed at the time.
Was she right or wrong to encourage her son to learn the art of war?
How often was a women's influence the reason for a man going to war?
How should women have responded to the threat of war?
http://www.jewish-history.com/civilwar/moses_ezekiel.html