It was the spring of 1865 . . . the remnants of what once had been Confederate regiments had stacked their arms, the tattered battle flags were furled, the cause which had been so gallantly defended was lost and one by one the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Tennessee and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi were disbanded. Those who had opposed these ragged veterans on the field of battle, while they may not have fully understood why their Southern foes had fought so fiercely, they did respect their bravery and dedication. Northern politicians, on the other hand, continued to wave the bloody shirt for more than a decade and exact reconstructive retribution from the prostrate body of the South. There were others in the North, however, who viewed the South in a far more sympathetic light, and were willing to publicly express such feelings. One such person was the noted writer for McClure’s Magazine in New York, Ida Minerva Tarbell.
At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, what the media now refers to as investigative journalism was then known as muckraking, and one of the foremost writers in this genre was Ida Tarbell. Miss Tarbell was born in Pennsylvania in 1857, and a few years later her father became an early oil producer in the town of Titusville.
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"John Marquardt....currently resides in Tokyo, Japan. His Japanese wife loves Charleston and Savannah and admires Southern culture."
ReplyDeleteNow tell me, how often do you hear of different peoples around the world admiring the culture of the United States, other than the despotic rulers and the like? Usually the US culture is despised, and for good reason; there's nothing morally good or desirable about it, in it's present state.
Central Alabamaian
there's nothing morally good or desirable about it, in it's present state.
DeleteExcept in certain sections.
"Even though Lincoln had attempted to obscure the fact that the Confederate States were, indeed, a sovereign nation by alluding to the South as nothing more than a region in rebellion against the Union, Tarbell’s article termed the Southerners who had conducted their brave resistance for four years as men who were now left without a country . . . a country she accurately portrayed as one whose government was now dead, its officials prisoners, its currency worthless and its constitution void."
ReplyDeleteThere are people in countries around the world, who also view ( I wonder why! ) the South in just the same light; we are viewed as a people who had control of their country torn from them, and turned into ( for the time being ) a vassal country to the US.
Central Alabamaian
we are viewed as a people who had control of their country torn from them, and turned into ( for the time being ) a vassal country to the US.
DeleteYes, Sir.