I was also born and raised in Yankee territory. As I write this I am deep into enemy territory. But I became an unapologetic, unreconstructed Confederate Rebel in heart, soul AND CONVICTION, after a few years of my own reading.
I wrote about Mary Surratt last year. If I remember correctly my lesson was about the friends you keep. But her story is tragic and unjust. I am looking forward to your article!
I just want to make two points. The first is my family were North Carolina refugees who escaped from being indentured. During the civil war they fought a guerilla war against troops to impress them into the southern service successful enough that they were finally left alone.
At the same time other Irish in New York were fighting federal (northern) troops attempts to impress them into fighting for the "freedom" of others when they felt they were being used as slaves by the NYC elite housed in tenements more squalor than any southern slave.
By the time I came around most of the family had migrated northward (opposite direction of your family.) None of them were educated but they had a family bible they taught themselves to read with and registered their genealogy all the way back to Ireland and Cromwell's seizing their land and sending them to America.
You might say my family history were both slaves/freedom fighters.
So here's where I find identity, and by the way, I have never found you to be supporting slavery or supremacy, but rather explaining the "southern psyche" imposed upon them by not just losing the war but having their noses rubbed in the shit leftover by the spoils of their land. So like them I grew up on the "lost cause" of the Irish.
If you try to force people into submission, well BF Skinner termed that negative reinforcement which actually simply turns people into harboring animosities and pretending into an obedience they don't believe in.
So Robert E. Lee may not be my hero but James Connolly is and I never sat foot in Ireland and more than likely never will.
Be that as it is,you are presenting important history because the war and its aftermath on both northern workers, southern whites and nearly every black person in America thereafter a sense of having been abused by America. And the second point is, for what it's worth cause I have 90 subscribers after three years, I am recommending your column and I am finishing up an interpretative article on Monica's Dark Corner which will conclude a six-part essay on freedom that will begin posting later today. So if you would like to view the series and send feedback I would appreciate it. And in part 5 & 6 when I write more directly on the Dark Corner, if you feel I misrepresent your column please feel free to correct my interpretation. But I hope I can do justice to your articles in my meager way.
I was also born and raised in Yankee territory. As I write this I am deep into enemy territory. But I became an unapologetic, unreconstructed Confederate Rebel in heart, soul AND CONVICTION, after a few years of my own reading.
Gen. Lee and Stonewall are proud of you!
Thank you for your kind comment, Greg! And, I appreciate you supporting my publication! ♥️
I wrote about Mary Surratt last year. If I remember correctly my lesson was about the friends you keep. But her story is tragic and unjust. I am looking forward to your article!
exactly why I like your column.
I just want to make two points. The first is my family were North Carolina refugees who escaped from being indentured. During the civil war they fought a guerilla war against troops to impress them into the southern service successful enough that they were finally left alone.
At the same time other Irish in New York were fighting federal (northern) troops attempts to impress them into fighting for the "freedom" of others when they felt they were being used as slaves by the NYC elite housed in tenements more squalor than any southern slave.
By the time I came around most of the family had migrated northward (opposite direction of your family.) None of them were educated but they had a family bible they taught themselves to read with and registered their genealogy all the way back to Ireland and Cromwell's seizing their land and sending them to America.
You might say my family history were both slaves/freedom fighters.
So here's where I find identity, and by the way, I have never found you to be supporting slavery or supremacy, but rather explaining the "southern psyche" imposed upon them by not just losing the war but having their noses rubbed in the shit leftover by the spoils of their land. So like them I grew up on the "lost cause" of the Irish.
If you try to force people into submission, well BF Skinner termed that negative reinforcement which actually simply turns people into harboring animosities and pretending into an obedience they don't believe in.
So Robert E. Lee may not be my hero but James Connolly is and I never sat foot in Ireland and more than likely never will.
Be that as it is,you are presenting important history because the war and its aftermath on both northern workers, southern whites and nearly every black person in America thereafter a sense of having been abused by America. And the second point is, for what it's worth cause I have 90 subscribers after three years, I am recommending your column and I am finishing up an interpretative article on Monica's Dark Corner which will conclude a six-part essay on freedom that will begin posting later today. So if you would like to view the series and send feedback I would appreciate it. And in part 5 & 6 when I write more directly on the Dark Corner, if you feel I misrepresent your column please feel free to correct my interpretation. But I hope I can do justice to your articles in my meager way.