The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History by Gary W. Gallagher

Author:Gary W. Gallagher [Gallagher, Gary W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015-10-10T19:30:39+00:00

Notes

1. Archer Anderson, “Robert Edward Lee: An Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Lee Monument,” in Southern Historical Society Papers, J. William Jones et al., eds., 52 vols. and 2-vol. index (1876–1959; reprint, Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint Co., 1977–80), 17:315.

2. On the antebellum experience of the last generation, see Peter S. Car-michael, “The Last Generation: Sons of Virginia Slaveholders and the Creation of a Southern Identity, 1850–1865” (Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1996).

3. Ibid.

4. Historians who argue that the Southern impulse to industrialize originated during the Civil War include Jack P. Maddex Jr., The Virginia Conservatives, 1867–1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970); and Paul M. Gaston, The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Myth Making (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970).

5. Virginius Dabney, Virginia: The New Dominion (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971), 275–76.

6. “The Education System of Prussia,” The Hampden-Sydney Magazine 1 ( June 1859): 227.

7. James DeWitt Hankins to Virginia Wilson Hankins, March 29, 1857, Hankins Family Papers, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond (hereafter cited as VHS). For a similar view of ambition, see Robert T. Scott to Fanny Scott (Carter) Scott, November 23, 1857, Keith Family Papers, VHS. On the potential dangers of ambition for a society dedicated to reciprocal duties, see William M. Radford, “Success in Life,” The Virginia University Magazine 4 (November 1859): 83–84; H. H. Harris, “New Preachment From an Old Text,” The Virginia University Magazine 4 (May 1859): 445–46.

8. Henry Clay Pate, The American Vade Mecum: or the Companion of Youth and Guide to College (Cincinnati: Morgan, 1852), 32–33; Walter Monteiro, Address Delivered Before the Neotrophian Society of the Hampton Academy, On the Twenty-Eighth of July, 1857 (Richmond: H. K. Ellyson, 1857), 2021. For other favorable appraisals of ambition, see “Ambition,” The Virginia University Magazine 3 (November 1858): 80–83.

9. George B. Forgie, Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), 63–70.

10. Alexander S. Pendleton, “Cincinnati Oration,” July 2, 1857, Porcher Gadsden Papers, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia (hereafter cited as W&L).

11. Craig M. Simpson, A Good Southerner: The Life of Henry A. Wise of Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 119, 136.

12. “Editor’s Table,” The Virginia University Magazine 4 (March 1860): 336; Pate, American Vade Mecum, 75–76.

13. William T. Kinzer diary, January 11, 1856, William T. Kinzer Papers, VHS; George W. Turner to Charles W. Turner, May 10, 1856, George W. Turner Papers, William R. Perkins Library, Manuscript Department, Duke University, Durham, N.C. (hereafter cited as DU).

14. Alexander S. Pendleton, “Cincinnati Oration,” July 2, 1857, Porcher Gads-den Papers, W&L; “Editor’s Table,” 336. Students at Virginia universities made frequent pleas for additional state funding for their respective institutions during the 1850s. They rooted their arguments in the assumption that the state’s institutions of higher learning could no longer compete with Northern schools. See “State Aid To Our College,” The Hampden Sidney Magazine 2 ( January 1860): 41–43; “Endowment of the

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