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Heyward Shepard was a /freeman/ when he was killed, why was his death used to support the Faithful Slave monument at Harper’s Ferry? –Megan Mc. | Heyward Shepard was a /freeman/ when he was killed, why was his death used to support the Faithful Slave monument at Harper’s Ferry? –Megan Mc. | ||
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| + | How successful is the author in presenting the differing views of Saint-Gaudens Shaw Memorial? What opinion have you formed of the memorial? -- R.King | ||
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| + | Do the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans truly believe their own rhetoric? -- R.King | ||
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| + | On page 107 the author quotes Viginia H. Sollers-Hoffmaster of the UDC, "I cannot imagine how long it will take to educate so-called historians that one cannot, I repeat, cannot re-write or alter history." Isn't that what the UDC and SCV are all about? Rewriting history to justify their lost cause? -- R.King | ||
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| + | On page 59 the the author talks about the Baltimore & Ohio Railroads plans to move their railroad tracks and that they would them cut through the John Brown's Fort, was this decision made because they saw little value in preserving it? Why would they then a year later offer to move it back to Harpers Ferry from Chicago and rebuild it near it's original site? --R. King | ||
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| + | The moving of the John Brown fort all around the country reminds me of the story of Davis and Lincoln’s log cabins. Like the John Brown fort they to were bought and sold. They also were put on display and shown in different parts of the country. They were disassembled and put together so many times that the logs got mixed up. Both cabins are mixed together now. Why has Harper Ferry become the Colonial Williamsburg of Civil War sites? Logan T | ||
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| + | Why is the 54th Massachusetts regiment the only black regiment remembered when talking about the Civil War? Like the book said there were other black regiments before the 54th. There were black regiments making assaults against Port Hudson just as heroic in Louisiana around the same time. Why have we chosen to remember the 54th incorrectly? The 54th was made up entirely of free blacks that had never been slaves. The War department did not trust ex slaves as soldiers because of an irrational fear that slaves would not fight against there owners and could be convinced by them to quit the army. The 54th was made of smart men that had a literacy rate higher than most confederate regiments. Why has this part of the 54th memory been forgotten? Logan T | ||
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| + | Is Shackel's description of the John Brown Fort as a civil war memorial correct? It was certainly an abolitionist monument and occured around the same time but the even was two years too early for it to have occured during the civil war and, aside from being a rallying point for northern troops, wasn't a important place during the war. AJ L. | ||
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| + | On pg 107, I find the comment by Virginia H. Sollers-Hoffmaster of the UDC very amusing. She comments that she is outraged that the monument dedicated to Heyward Shepherd is covered at that moment in time and how questioned how long it would take historians to realize they couldn't simply rewrite history (referring to the argument of what should be done with the Monument), however the monument itself was essentially an attempt to rewrite history by the Confederate veterans societies by trying to cast slavery in the south in a different light than what it was truly like. AJ L. | ||
