Fellow CWRTs,

Please read and react to this accordingly.  Two days ago a proposal from the Nashville Metro Parks to layoff several employees to help balance a budget for the department was leaked to the Nashville Tennessean newspaper.  It seems that the Parks director bungled $1 Million of his budget by overspending and the word has gotten out about it.  One of the employees proposed to be let go is the museum specialist who runs Ft. Negley Park.  Ft. Negley is the largest remaining Civil War fort of its kind in the nation and was to have been a centerpiece of Civil War tourism for Nashville.  If the museum specialist, Krista Castillo, is let go she would be replaced by a transfer from one of the other parks sites of the city who knows nothing about Civil War history.

Not only is the current director of Ft. Negley a good friend of mine, she is also about to graduate with her Masters of Military History from Austin Peay State University and has worked as a museum registrar.  She is highly competent, experienced and a dedicated Civil War historian who has done some fine things since starting at Ft. Negley a year ago. Through more tours, programs like Silver Screen Saturdays where old Civil War movies have been shown to Haunted Ft. Negley, Krista has done an outstanding job trying to put Ft. Negley into the Civil War spotlight of Middle Tennessee.  She has built a lot of support from  the Civil War groups of Middle Tennessee.  She is a member of the Clarksville CWRT and is president of the Nashville CWRT, which currently meets at Ft. Negley and would probably have to move to a new location if she loses her job.

A backlash in the local historical community is building but I think it would be great if the Mayor of Nashville, Karl Dean, would get some emails from you and your members letting him know that Ft. Negley is not just a local or Middle Tennessee Civil War site – but one with national interest and support.  The more the mayor gets from folks out of state the more he will come to understand that the national historical community values its slowly vanishing treasures and does not take lightly a slipshod manner of running such sites.  Krista is the first Ft. Negley director to really connect with the Civil War community and that will probably stop if she is laid off.

Please send this around to your members and ask them to take a few moments to email Mayor Dean.  His email is: mayor@nashville.gov

Please be polite but firm in your emails and let him know how much you value Ft. Negley as a Civil War site for the entire nation.

Thanks for your support.

Greg Biggs
Clarksville Civil War Round Table

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November 1864

• The biggest news is the election of Lincoln & Johnson on the eighth.  The popular vote was almost 500,000 higher for Lincoln, about one out of eight votes, but the Electoral College cast 212 votes for Lincoln and 21 for McClellan.  This victory ends any hope of the war ending in anything but a Confederate defeat.

• On the second, Secretary of State Seward tells the mayor of New York that Confederate agents are planning to burn the city.

• On the fifth, General N.B. Forrest ends a very successful raid into Tennessee.  The Union Army lost equipment having a value of over $6.7 million.  Forrest ends the raid to join J.B. Hood in what will become the Nashville Campaign.

• In Chicago, on the sixth, authorities arrest over 100 Copperheads and CSA sympathizers.  They are part of a plot to disrupt the coming election and burn the city.  None of those arrested are even tried.

• On the 12^th, a landing party from the USS Hedrick Hudson & Nita attack salt works near Tampa, FL.  Cavalry manage to drive the party away prior to the destruction of the salt works.

• On the 14^th, President Lincoln accepts General George B. McClellan’s resignation from the army.  Philip H. Sheridan becomes a Major General.

• Sherman departs Atlanta on the 15^th, starting his famous March to the Sea.  O.O. Howard commands the right wing (XIV & XX Corps), Henry W. Slocum commands the left wing (XV &XVII Corps) with the cavalry under Judson Kilpatrick.

• As Sherman heads toward Savannah, on the 16^th, J.B. Hood’s army starts marching toward Tennessee.

• Jefferson Davis instructs General Howell Cobb to use the Georgia militia to oppose Sherman on the 18^th.  The next day, John Brown orders all men between 16 & 45 to join the militia.  General William J. Hardee commands this “force”.

• On the 22^nd, the Georgia legislature flees Milledgeville as Slocum approaches.  At Griswoldville, showing more bravery than good sense, the Georgia militia attacks Kilpatrick’s cavalry.  The militia suffers over 600 casualties while inflicting only about 100 on Kilpatrick.  This is the biggest battle of the March to the Sea.  In Tennessee, Schofield marches northward to escape Hood’s approaching army.

• On the 25^th, New York has ten fires set in hotels by CSA agents that entered from Canada.  One agent is captured, tried and executed.  In Texas, Colonel Kit Carson is defeated at the battle of Adobe Wells.  He manages to withdraw his command to safety without undue losses.  This is the largest Indian battle in Texas.

• In Tennessee, Hood forces Schofield to withdraw from the Duck River after several days of maneuvering.  Schofield finds Hood has most of his army North of the river and in position to cut him off from Nashville.  On the 28^th, preparations to withdraw begin.  On the 29^th, Schofield marches his army past Hood at Spring Hill reaching safety in Franklin.  What happened, who is responsible, why this happened are still hot topics and “The Spring Hill Affair” enters into history.

• November 30^th, Hood angered at the failure to trap Schofield orders the largest charge of the Civil War.  About 4 PM, three divisions charge over two miles of open ground at entrenched Union veterans.  Six Confederate Generals are killed, six other badly wounded along with over 6,200 solders.  The Union line holds and that night Schofield withdraws to Nashville.  He suffered just over 2,300 causalities in the Battle of Franklin.  The Confederate Army of Tennessee never recovers from this battle.  Among those killed is CSA General Patrick Cleburne, the Stonewall of the West, leading his division at the focal point of the attack.

• November is almost the close of the active campaign season.  Sherman is marching through Georgia.  Grant & Lee remain locked together at Petersburg.  Hood is badly battered but advancing on Thomas entrenched at Nashville.  Lincoln’s election indicates the North’s resolve to see things through to total victory.  Jefferson Davis is insisting that the CSA will accept no terms but independence and that no vital area is conquered.  This is starting to ring hollow as desertions from the army and desperation at home take a larger toll.  The war is not over and will not end in April 1865 either.

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1) The insistence that the North is good and the South bad can be a warning sign, just as an insistence that the South was good and the North bad is a warning sign of Lost Cause Mythology.  Most accept that the North’s position was the right one and that the United States should not have allowed secession.  However, an insistence that the Northern position was 100% right and the South’s 100% wrong isn’t historical or likely.  Both sides missed opportunities to avoid the war and both sides did things that brought the war closer.  The South has the majority of responsibility for causing the war but the North is not the innocent victim.  An excellent indication that you are talking to a PCMer is when they equate the Confederacy and /or owning slaves with the Third Reich.

2) Slavery is wrong, was unkind and was the underlying cause of the war.  It was the most visible difference between the two sections but it was not the only difference.  The South lost national influence in the years leading up to the war.  This coupled with the differences between agricultural and industrial economies created tensions that led to war.  Southern slavery, while not kind, was not excessively cruel considering the standards in place.  An example of the PCM is the person on Yahoo Groups that stated slave owners would let a slave die rather than spend the price of a chicken on a doctor.  Considering the price of a slave was several years’ wages, the idea makes no economic sense.

3) Black support of the Confederacy is the one place the PCM & LCM meet!  Both are dedicated to showing that the CSA was an all-white operation.  The LCM simply ignored any contributions by Blacks expect as “the faithful slave” stories.  The PCM has decided that, the South being the center of evil and slavery being hell on earth, no Black could support the CSA in any way.  This has led to the assertion that any Blacks serving in CSA armies were really mixed race and somehow less Black.  I have had authors say that a history of the Battle of Williamsport cannot be written.  Black teamsters picking up rifles joined white troops in fighting off the Union cavalry.  While historical, this is not acceptable to the book buying public.  The SCV is accepting the contributions of Blacks and recognizing them as a valued part of the South’s armies.

4) Reconstruction; part of the PC Myth is the contention that the USA should have engaged in massive land distribution projects during Reconstruction.  These projects would have stripped those that fought for the CSA of land and given it to former slaves.  This idea seems based on the redistribution of land done in Russia and China after the communist revolutions and would have been completely out of character for the USA.

5) The failure of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow are blamed on racism and the refusal of Southern Whites to be reconstructed.  Books by Eric Foner follow this line, restricting the failure to racial issues and local politics.  Part of the popularity of this view is how well it works with the South being the center of evil, one of the most popular and widely held parts of the PCM.  This view holds that whites should have been denied civil rights for life and reduced to non-citizens for rebelling.

6)  The Reconstruction Klan is seen as a wholly rascist organization having no other reason for existence.  This view is more consistent with the Klan of the 20^th Century and ignores any excesses, real or perceived, that occurred during Reconstruction.  This view is consistent with the underlying theme of racial animosity that is so much a part of the PC Myth.

7)  Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow occupy a special place in the PCM.  First, Forrest is the perfect Southerner for this group.  A slave trader prior to the war and founding member of the Klan afterwards, makes him the man they love to hate.  Fort Pillow is a massacre of surrendering members of the USCT directed by Forrest.  Richard Fuchs’ book scores very high with the PCM.  The lack of prosecution after the war and race relations between Forrest and the Black community has no bearing here.

John Brown is an iconic figure for the PCM.  Their history abounds with books lauding Brown for destroying slavery and being free of racism.  They see Brown, in Kansas, as shielding the anti-slavery group from violence initiated by the pro-slavery group.  Harpers Ferry is an act of civil disobedience, not insurrection, and is applauded as a blow against slavery.

9)  While not a defining trend, the PCM is more interested in the political, social and/or economic history of the war than the military history.  McPherson’s “Battle Cry of Freedom” is always the recommended general history of the war for this reason.

10) The Bleeding Kansas violence was caused by pro-slavery faction invading the area from Missouri.  These groups were responsible for 75% of the violence during this time.  The anti-slavery faction was just protecting their lives and responding to the violence committed against them.

11)  The South was incapable of changing their position on slavery and would never have grown to accept emancipation without the war.

12)  “Gone with the Wind” is hated and considered a rascist book and movie.  Those involved with the PC Myth will go to great lengths to deprecate GWTW.

13)  John Brown is a revered hero.  His actions in Kansas are always defensive and justifiable.  Harpers Ferry was a good plan, local slaves joined him and the drunken rascist locals forming a mob frustrated his plans and trapped him in the arsenal.

14)  Robert E. Lee is dismissed as a traitor and responsible for prolonging the war unnecessarily.  In addition, much is made of the problems with freeing the slaves under his Father-in-law’s will and his having a runaway slave whipped.  Both are used to “prove” Lee was an evil person.

A defining trait of the PCM is the insistence that there is no such thing as the Politically Correct Myth of the American Civil War.  A second part of this argument is that there is no such thing as political correctness, just the truth.

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At seven in the morning on May 20, 1631, 18,000 soldiers loyal to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II stormed the ancient German city of Magdeburg. The Protestant city was in rebellion against its Catholic overlord but had only 7,000 defenders, almost half of whom were armed children. Plague had weakened the populace, and ammunition was low. By mid-morning, Magdeburg was overrun. By noon, it was ablaze. The thousand citizens who huddled in the cathedral were saved; but outside the flames lit hellish scenes of murder and rapine. Twenty-thousand corpses were eventually heaved into the Elbe River. Of 2,000 city buildings, only 200 survived. A year later, the ruins of Magdeburg sheltered less than 500 souls. The city’s destruction would go down as the most notorious atrocity of the Thirty Years War.

The war fought between 1618 and 1648 remains, by many measures, the most destructive in Europe’s history. During those years the Holy Roman Empire—which governed most of the European continent east of the Rhine—lost as many as eight million subjects, or a staggering 20% of its population. This amounted to three times Europe’s death rate during World War II. Whole swaths of central Europe were depopulated, abandoned to wild pigs and wolves.

The sack of Magdeburg was an extreme but by no means an isolated event. Armies of the time were “self-financed,” or to use a modern term, “privatized.” Many  army commanders viewed war as a business, and the kings who employed them expected them to supply and pay themselves from plunder, plus turn a profit. There were also many “free companies” who were in for whatever they could get by whatever means. In short wars this might have been marginally tolerable, but the repeated campaigns across central Europe over thirty years made parts of it a virtual desert. There were no rules—war was conducted on the whim of local commanders. The execution of prisoners was routine and the rape, torture, and plunder of civilians was commonplace. There is no need to elaborate, but if you want to see a contemporary representation you can take a look at artist Jacques Callot’s Miseries of War, which will tell you all you need to know. Callot was the precursor of the combat artist of the Civil War.

The period remains an important one because of the reaction to it. The nation-state emerged as the primary political entity and diplomatic relationships as we know them today were defined by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

For our purposes the other reaction was the emergence of the modern laws and customs of war afterward in an attempt to mitigate the horrors of the Thirty Years War. Henceforth armies (or at least the officers) were to be professional, to answer to and be paid by a sovereign and not let loose to plunder. In the Eighteenth Century armies were supplied by a system of magazines and held in check with harsh discipline. Prisoners were granted certain rights and the civilian population protected when possible. War between states had much more limited aims—the capture of fortresses, provinces or colonies—rather than the destruction of whole areas. Eventually these practices developed into what was generally known as the Laws and Customs of War, finally written down in the Leiber Code.

Thus, although the Civil War could be very harsh at times, Atlanta and Richmond—or even Lawrence—did not suffer the fate of Madgeburg.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 308 pages
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press (December 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807130885
• ISBN-13: 978-0807130889

Who is the enemy?

The war between general officers can be as interesting as the war between the armies.  Bragg’s problems as commander of the Army of Tennessee with Polk and Hardee, Hood undercutting Johnston in 1864, the often-contentious HR problems of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Pope McClellan feud and Halleck maneuvering against Grant are well known.  Each of these is the subject of books or devoted chapters in numerous histories of the war.  The concentration on the war east of the Mississippi misses one of the worst feuds between generals during the war.  Richard Taylor and Edmund Kirby Smith were both proud, competent men that were sure they knew what was best.  After the fall of Vicksburg, the Trans-Mississippi became Kirby Smithdom.  Isolated from the Confederacy, subject to conflicting demands and directives from Richmond that might be impossible these two men fought the Union Army and each other to a standstill.  This is their story both during and after the war.

Neither man seems to have had real warm feelings for the other.  Taylor was responsible for Louisiana and reported to Smith who commanded the Trans-Mississippi.  The author gives us a full and careful review of the two men, their war experiences and political support.  This allows the reader to fully understand the root of the problems and appreciate the extant of their bitterness.  Taylor’s handling of CSA forces during the Red River Campaign is brilliant.  He defeats a much larger combined arms force isolating each and almost destroying both.  Smith may or may not have robbed Taylor of victory by removing troops to defeat an army advancing in Arkansas.

This book assumes the reader knows very little and carefully explains the position of the parties, their options and the results of the choice made.  This is one of the strongest parts of the book and keeps the reader fully informed, allowing us to make informed decisions.  A second strong point is covering the post-war history of both men and how the story grew and changed.  This is being done more often in better histories, is well handled and very valuable.

Richmond is part of the problem and the shadowy presence over the Trans-Mississippi.  The source of power, Smith and Taylor supporters battle there too.  However, Richmond has an agenda that fully supports neither and causes problems for both.  In the end, as was done elsewhere, Richmond refuses to support either side.  This book is not an expose of the Confederate Departmental system but it shows all the problems this system caused and that Richmond refused to resolve.

This is not an easy read but it is a worthwhile read.  The author’s words do not jump off the page, grab you and pull you in.  They build a solid reliable narration that is full of information and is very logical.  This is a book that those interested in the Trans-Mississippi and/or the Confederate high command should read.

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Touching on a piece of history that I think is too often overlooked, author Joe G. Bax successfully paints a vivid picture of a small Texas town during the tumultuous period that followed the Civil War.

With a wide cast of characters, ranging from the prosperous land owner to the poor share cropper, from former slaves to Kluxers, The General explores the turbulent and violent era commonly known as Reconstruction.

General Leander Wilhite, for whom the book is named, is a quiet, reclusive character, while John Ross, his grandson, takes the lead in the story. A former Confederate commander, General Wilhite returns to his plantation Catulpa to put the war behind him and try to come to terms with the momentous change that has been wrought on society. Through John Ross, the reader gets a glimpse of the emotions, the discord, the violence, and the fear that gripped the nation, and especially the South, after the war.

My only criticism would be that, for those like me, who enjoy long, meaty novels with well-developed characters, this one falls short at only 168 pages. For those who enjoy quick reads, this is good historical fiction, a well-crafted story of race relations, revenge and retaliation by an author with a unique voice and authentic writing style.

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As in each entry in the series, I’ve taken the liberty of removing non-Civil War related books from the list.  The books below are in the Civil War Top 10 as of October 22, 2009.  As of this list, I am recombining Lincoln books with other Civil War books.  The hoopla surrounding the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth has ebbed a bit, so a recombination makes sense.  Usually, numbers in parentheses mark the book’s prior position in the Top 10 from the last time I did the list.  We will be completely starting over this time, however.

Note: Some of these are the Kindle edition. Kindle is Amazon’s handheld device for reading books electronically.  Since last time, Amazon has come out with Kindle 2, a sleeker version which also allows you to upload many public domain books for minimal or no cost!

1. (-) Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Summary: Goodwin covers the “team” Abraham Lincoln put together to form his cabinet.  Dimitri would dispute the validity of the term “team”. Since I started looking at this list of bestsellers, Team of Rivals has no rivals at the top of the Civil War book pile.

2. (-) The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan

Summary: Keegan is widely regarded as a master military historian.  I especially enjoyed his classic “you are there” approach to military history in The Face of Battle.  It will be interesting to see how Keegan’s one volume history of the Civil War stacks up against the others in this field.

3. (-) The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Summary: Although obscure when initially written in the 1970s, Michael Shaara’s fictional account of Gettysburg has been a bestseller pretty much since the movie GETTYSBURG was released in 1993. Surprisingly, The Killer Angels has dropped completely out of the top 10, something I didn’t initially think was possible.  It’s interesting to see the month to month movement in this list.  It isn’t nearly as static as I had originally thought.

4. (-) Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Summary: This has been the standard one volume history of the Civil War since its release. McPherson’s book has been largely in the bottom half of the top 10. Given its widespread use and acclaim, I’m still a little surprised it isn’t consistently in the top 3.  I’m pretty sure it will not be that high in the foreseeable future.

5. (-) Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson

Summary: Swanson’s book covers the hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the days immediately following Lincoln’s assassination.

6. (-) This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

Summary: Faust argues that 1860s America’s familiarity with death led to massive casualty rates, acceptable by those standards but appalling when looked at through today’s lens. This book has been one of the most reviewed Civil War books I’ve seen over the past 3 or so years since I started blogging. The book continues to rise and fall in the middle of the pack each time I take a look at these rankings.

7. (-) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

Summary: Jacobs was a slave, and she chronicled her experiences in this book, released in 1861.  Her attacks on slavery served to further educate the public as to the evils of the peculiar institution.

8. (-) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Summary: The autobiography of one of the most famous Abolitionists ever.  I have not yet had the pleasure of reading this one. Douglass’ book is the first on this list which focuses mainly on slavery and the life of slaves to remain near the top of the bestseller list. So much for harping on readers’ complete ignorance concerning the great racial elephant in the room, or what some corners of the Civil War blogosphere would call the ONLY reason to even study the conflict.

9. (-) Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James McPherson

Summary: This is another McPherson summary.  Many other Civil War bloggers have already commented on the lack of any new insights or groundbreaking material in this book.

10. (-) The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer

Summary: The State of Jones is the second book in a short while to come out about Newt Knight and Jones County, Mississippi.  Victoria Bynum’s was the first.  There has been some controversy between the authors of this book and Professor Bynum, especially about whether or not Jones County seceded from the Confederacy during the Civil War.  My advice would be to purchase both books and make up your own mind based on what the authors have written.  Check out the controversy AFTER you’ve read the books.

Dropped Out This Month:

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Brett’s Final Thoughts:

I apologize for not keeping this particular feature going more regularly over the summer.  Now that the weather is growing colder expect to see these lists every other month or once a month if I’m ambitious.  Keep in mind that “bestselling” definitely does not always mean “best”.  Instead, this is a glimpse into what is popular among Amazon’s admittedly large customer base.  In any event, whether you are new to the study of the Civil War or an experienced veteran, check out the Amazon.com Top 10 Civil War Books List and see if there is something there for you.

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The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta

By Marc Wortman

Marc Wortman hasn’t so much written a book about the siege and burning of Atlanta as he has written a history of Atlanta covering approximately fifty years from its founding until its surrender to the army of William Tecumseh Sherman and its ultimate destruction.  In doing so he has won the award for the most misleading book title of 2009, for his is not a book solely focused on “The Siege and Burning of Atlanta.”  A full third of the book passes by before Mr. Wortman comes to the outbreak of the Civil War, and nearly another third of the book passes by before his narrative makes its way to the Atlanta Campaign, the siege of the city, its surrender and burning.

What Mr. Wortman has done very well is given us a very detailed look at the history of Atlanta, seen through the eyes of its citizens; its wartime mayor, James Montgomery Calhoun (a first cousin once removed of Senator and United States Vice President John C. Calhoun), Mrs. Cyrena Stone a diarist with Union sympathies, and Robert Gadsby, a slave in title only, who may or may not have been the illegitimate son of Daniel Webster.  It is interesting that Mr. Wortman chose three Atlantans with Unionist leanings as the main characters in a book about the siege and burning of Atlanta; Margaret Mitchell’s Atlanta, this isn’t.

The military history of the Atlanta Campaign, the siege of the city, its surrender and burning, have taken a backseat in Mr. Wortman’s tome.  Despite its title the siege and burning of Atlanta are not the main focus of this book.  It’s narrative, rather, is driven by Atlanta’s Unionist inhabitants, which in and of itself is worthy of study.  But in a book with a title, “The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta,” one would expect to find a book solely dedicated to military operations instead of only a third of its 361 pages of text.

Mr. Wortman’s book is well researched and written in an easily read style.  It transitions easily from topic to topic, giving the book a nice narrative flow. “The Bonfire” is a great bargain for the book buyer, as it is several books all rolled up into one; a history of Georgia, the Indian removal (The Trail of Tears), the founding of Atlanta, an abbreviated genealogy of the Calhoun family, a biography of Robert Gadsby, and a history of the  campaign for Atlanta, its siege and burning.

ISBN 978-1-58648-482-8, Public Affairs, © 2009, Hardcover, 464 pages, Photographs, Illustrations, Maps, Endnotes & Index. $28.95

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It’s 7 x 10, about 400k words, 856 pages, double column, case bound smythe sewn with cloth cover and dustjacket.  Price is $50 including postage (or three silver dollars plus $5 for postage).  Only four years late.

His address is P.O. Box 27433, San Francisco, CA 94127.

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