{"id":4464,"date":"2023-12-20T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T20:09:52","slug":"re-writing-history-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/12\/20\/re-writing-history-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"RE-Writing History in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CivilWar-1st-Alabama.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CivilWar-1st-Alabama-1024x826.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4466\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CivilWar-1st-Alabama-1024x826.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CivilWar-1st-Alabama-300x242.png 300w, http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CivilWar-1st-Alabama-768x619.png 768w, http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CivilWar-1st-Alabama.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Alabama farmers who volunteered for the First Alabama Union Cavalry were shaped by its commanders at Corinth, Miss., in 1862. (Grenville M. Dodge Collection\/State Historical Society of Iowa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A new generation of Civil War scholars is filling in what one commentator call<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/17\/us\/overlooked-no-more-skipped-history-explores-forgotten-events.html?searchResultPosition=5\" target=\"_blank\">s<\/a> the \u201cskipped history\u201d of White Southerners who fought for the Union Army.  How did a regiment of 2,066 fighters and spies from the mountain South, chosen by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman as his personal escort on the March to the Sea, get erased? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/12\/20\/howell-raines-alabama-civil-war-history\/?wpisrc=nl_most\">Here is a link<\/a> that you can read (or listen to the audio).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/12\/20\/howell-raines-alabama-civil-war-history\/?wpisrc=nl_most\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/12\/20\/howell-raines-alabama-civil-war-history\/?wpisrc=nl_most<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new generation of Civil War scholars is filling in what one commentator calls the \u201cskipped history\u201d of White Southerners who fought for the Union Army. How did a regiment of 2,066 fighters and spies from the mountain South, chosen by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman as his personal escort on the March to the Sea, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}