September 22, 2022: Smith Civil War Lecture with Caroline E. Janney, Ph.D.
Caroline E. Janney, Ph.D., the John L. Nau III Professor of the American Civil War and Director of the Nau Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia, discusses “An End or Beginning: Lee’s Army after Appomattox.”
Janney is past president of the Society of Civil War Historians and a series editor for the University of North Carolina Press’s Civil War America series. She has published seven books, including “Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation” (2013) and “Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox” (2021), and she is the winner of the 2022 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
Janney’s presentation is the 2022 Richard W. Smith Lecture in Civil War History. Learn more at www.owu.edu/history.
September 22, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Benes Room, Hamilton-Williams Campus Center
Videography by Elaine Chun
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Excellent historian and speaker.
I love history even earned a Master's in History Emphasis Native American Off Reservation Schools just never got to finish my dream of getting a PHD but I think I ok considering first generation graduate. I just wished I would of had the opportunity to go on!
The sense of dread regarding the missing 20 thousand and threat of guerrilla warfare is palpable
@jonnie106
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Dr. Janney said there were many ex-confederate soldiers that hadn't been beat down enough. While they didn't launch the guerrilla warfare many feared, they did kick off a kind of social warfare against the emancipated black Americans that would rage, simmer, flare up and die down over the next 90+ years. I find it interesting that while groups like the UDC were trying to sanitize history to ensure the confederacy's fallen were remembered honorably, the ones that didn't fall were undermining that effort, by being as dishonorable as possible toward emancipated black American citizens; the very same group of people they allegedly didn't fight a war to keep enslaved.
@avenaoat
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Guerilla warfare would have been short time possibility. 1. Appalachian region was strongly unionist sentiment area, the best area for guerilla action from North Alabama, through North Georgia, Western part of North Carolina and East Tenneessee. The North Western 4 counties (for example Pickens (I have recently learnt) ) in South Carolina also had some prounionist people, here was the weekest effect of Slavery system for the not slave holders white people in South Carolina. 2. The Mississipi River valley had higher % slave population, the Cajuns were either neutral or unionist sentiment in Lousiana. The black belt area with high% exslaves would have been strong helper from Central Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina to Virginia. 3. A Federal Army + Prounionist White Southerners + Exslaves ally stopped a long time guerriia werfare possibilities with hugh suffering for everybody in the battlefield South! 4. Many CW buff forget the Southerner White Unionist had strong effect for the Civil War, not only the Colored troops. Not only for secession of West Virginia or East Tenneessee. About 100 000 white Southerner fought in the USA army and unknown in the Navy. I think if USA Army would had reached earlier Deep South in Georgia more white prounionist soldiers would have been!
@avenaoat
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The Peace was a minimum for the South the ExConfederate states, not a guerilla werfare. However a some year guerilla werfare could have decreased the effect of the Klu Klux Klan, because the big % of future members of Klu Klux Klan would have died in the gueralla werfare................
@jonnie106
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@avenaoat On this I agree, for only the hardest heads and the thickest skulls would be out conducting clandestine warfare, isolating themselves from the more loyal society that we don't want to grease. Many rebel foot soldiers and offices alike have been similarly quoted to have said they'd "rather die than live in a world where" they were equal to negroes. A guerrilla war might have been the best chance to accommodate them, seeing as the four years of civil war didn't kill them all. As it was, instead of guerrilla warfare against the government they would conduct a deadly type of social warfare against the emancipated blacks in their midst. Segregation, Jim Crow, voter intimidation and lynch mob justice; which would kill as many as 4,400 black men, women and children over nine decades (3,700 documented). Occasionally these 'justice seekers' would encounter an angry criminal black man who actually had broken a law, but in most cases petty charges were inflated to heinous deeds, or accusations were made out of thin air if needed. Charges designed to get the lynch mob amped up. Any mis-step towards a white woman was worth an immediate lynching. Anything seen as a mis-step or insult by a white woman, would almost certainly cost a black man or women his/her life. Truth was an easy sacrifice for the chance to send a bloody, shocking and often charred 'you know who's in charge' message.
@almclean2054
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About 9 minutes to get to the speaker
Sherman was a man with no compromise. I appreciate this post.