Themes of the American Civil War
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| O.R., Ser. 1, Vol. 52, Part 2, pp. 586, 589–90. 12. Connelly, Autumn of Glory, pp. 318–20; Buck, Negroes in our Army p. 217; O.R., Ser. Vol. 52, Part 2, pp. 593–9, 606–7. Cleburne himself evidently respected Seddon ’ s orders to cease agitating the matter. And, at Cleburne’s order, Captain Irving Buck destroyed all but one copy of the original memo. R. G. H. Kean, head of the Bureau of War, believed that few not present at the meeting at Hardee’s headquarters had learned of the incident. Following its suppression, the text of Cleburne’s memo disappeared from sight until 1890, when a copy was discovered in the papers of a member of Cleburne’s staff. Letter from AS. Colyar to AS. Marks, February 5, 1864, in The Annals of the Army of Tennessee and early Western History, 1 (May 1878), p. 52; Buck, Negroes in our Army pp. 216–17; Younger, The Diary of R. G. H. Kean, pp. 177–8; J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate State Capital, ed. Howard Swiggett (New York, 1935) II, p. 146; and Connelly, Autumn of Glory, p. Younger, Diary of R. G. H. Kean, p. 182. Samuel Clayton to Jefferson Davis, January 10, 1865, in O.R., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, p. Alexander W. Cooper to Jefferson Davis, December 25, 1864, in the Jefferson Davis Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. 16. C. B. Leitner to Jefferson Davis, December 31, 1864, Letters Received by the Secretary of War, National Archives, letter L 40 Lee to Davis, November 2, 1864, in Durden, The Gray and the Black, pH. Kendall to Jefferson Davis, September 16, 1864, original emphasis, Letters Received by the Secretary of War, National Archives, letter K 73 1864. New Orleans Picayune of November 3, 1864, in Durden, The Gray and the Black, p. 80. See also O.R , Ser. 1, Vol. 48, Part 1, p. 1321; and Younger, The Diary of R. G. H. Kean, p. 183. 20. O.R., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, pp. 915–16; Ser. 1, Vol. 41, Part 3, p. 774. 21. O.R., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, p. Wilfred Buck Yearns, The Confederate Congress (Atlanta, GA, 1960), pp. Lee to Barksdale, February 18, 1865, in Durden, The Gray and the Black, pp. 206–7. In addition to individual letters cited earlier, see Jones, Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, p. 451; and Durden, The Gray and the Black, pp. 205, 215–24. 25. Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861–1865 (Washington, DC, VII, pp. 612–13; Yearns, Confederate Congress, p. 97. 26. Journal of the Confederate Congress IV, pp. 585, 670–1; Yearns, Confederate Congress, p. 98; O.R., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, pp. Paul Escott, After Secession Jefferson Davis and the Failure of Confederate Nationalism (Baton Rouge, LA, 1978), pp. The Mercury of November 3, 1864, in Durden, The Gray and the Black, p. Shelby Foote, The Civil War A Narrative (New York, 1974) III, p. 766. 30. Durden, The Gray and the Black, pp. 232–3; James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men fought in the Civil War (New York and Oxford, 1997), p. 171; Reid, “Confederate Opponents of Arming the Slaves p. 267; O.R., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, pp. 1009–10. 244 • Bruce Levine 31. Connelly, Autumn of Glory, p. The Mercury of February 3, 1865, in Durden, The Gray and the Black, pp. Quoted in Escott, After Secession, p. 254. Thomas Robson Hay, The South and the Arming of the Slaves Mississippi Valley Historical Review 6 (June 1919), pp. 48–9; O.R, Ser. 1, Vol. 52, Part 2, pp. 586–92. Stephens gave pride of place to differences overstates rights. The Confederacy, he declared, was the creature not of a “Pro–slavery Party but rather of those with strong convictions that the Federal Government had no rightful or Constitutional control or jurisdiction over such local matters as slavery. Stephens, A Constitutional View of the late War between the States Its Download 2.25 Mb. Share with your friends:
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