AR8-1-15 The Civil War: Two Soldiers and Their Worlds
Overview: "During the American Revolution, Loyalist opponents of
independence had claimed that the colonists could never create a unified nation
because the economic and cultural differences be-tween North and South would
lead to civil strife. But the two sections were able to lay aside their
differences while they fought the Revolutionary War, drafted the Constitution,
and began the new government. Even as they cooperated in some enterprises,
however, they disagreed over tariffs, slavery, and western lands, widening the
breach that Tories had discerned almost a century before. Antagonism between
the two sections exploded into war in 1861, each side believing in the
righteousness of its cause. The Civil War not only revealed the depths of
sectional differences, but also demonstrated the underlying similarities
between the sections. The careers of William Wheeler and Charles Colcock Jones
Jr. personify both the brutality of warfare and the common humanity of North
and South."
1. Viewing the Civil War through the lives of two soldiers: A unique position in American history, human scale, William Wheeler, Charles Colcock Jones, Civil War letters.
2. William Wheeler: Early Life and Civil War Soldiering: Artillery captain, William Tecumseh Sherman, Chattanooga, "quiet feeling of satisfaction and contentment," literature, killed fisherman, catching seventy-two trout, Yale, grow whiskers, secret society for scholars, studied law at Yale, grand tour of Europe, Australia, Gibraltar, wheat and bacon, study in Berlin, hiking the alps, legal studies, Harvard, New York, "the extreme Abolition edge of the Republican party," hoped for war, great sin expiated, "that I shall never see a holier cause to fight for," patriotism, Seventh Regiment, purchased a uniform, Mantanzas, "is not this God's cause," gigantic spree, Garibaldi, Union, "The Star-Spangled Banner," Potomac, Camp Cameron, makeshift cabins, slept under canvas, dwellings caught fire, stone fireplaces, pork barrels, "the fun ceases to be perceptible," crackers and coffee, meat and soup, salt horse and hard biscuit, mutton or chicken, "maize au naturel," "a shabby, muddy soldier," little holly-tree, prayer meeting, songs men sung by campfire, school for the soldiers, literacy, mountainous parts of Virginia, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, handkerchiefs, towels, and soap, glorious adventure, indecisive skirmishes, Robert E. Lee, Frederick County-Maryland, cups of cold water, speedy messenger, Gettysburg, ladies waving handkerchiefs and cheering, Cemetery Hill, "the air was literally alive with flying projectile," Confederate charges, the dismal march back to Virginia, minor actor in an epic drama, "joyous exaltation," battle become a way of life, infantryman's leg, "fine looking young Irishman," the certitude that he would be killed, wrote home, "I must fall," "my plighted bride," three-inch rifled guns, old friend, his horse, Barry, "Go! and he goeth," "extreme Emancipationist, knight on a crusade, goal to eradicate slavery, "steam engine in pantaloons," draft riots, Holy Grail, "ready to bear, believe, hope," able to inspire others, even hesitated to visit his family, soft-shell crab, "sensible chat over the apples and Madeira," details of daily life, "neat little touches thrown skillfully," "tried secessionists for breakfast,""unbridled enthusiasm," women "dresses in black," walked among the southerners, "prettiest girl in Virginia," enthralled by this she-rebel, "sweet Maud Muller," letter on the battlefield, young married lady in Georgia, "common humanity," mixed easily with the people, an old Presbyterian clergyman, troops that Sherman sent to Georgia.
3. Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.: Early Life and Civil War Soldiering: Charles Colcock Jones Jr., southern virtues, Savannah-Georgia, Presbyterian minister, three plantations, plantation wealth, Princeton, Harvard, Indian summer, attachment to the South, local Fourth of July Celebration, all firecrackers and rocks, fine orations, repelled by abolitionist, Anthony Burns, Charles F. Suttle, "Mob Jaw, perjury, free-soilism, and abolitionism," "his brother Southerner," beleaguered righteousness, southerners were different, misguided northerners, Ward, Owens, and Jones, volunteer Chatham Artillery Company, city alderman, Ruth Berrien Whitehead, mayor of Savannah, city alderman, paternalistic relationship between the master and the slave, "responsibilities," 129 blacks, Catechism of Scripture Doctrine and Practice (1837), The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States (1842), reopening of the slave trade, sold with their families, "lowest occupation," Richard Wayne, great procession, singing of hundreds of blacks, "We Are Passing Away," genuine community, white authority must prevail, hiring their labor, "quall sudden insurrection or domestic lawlessness," danger from North, sectional warfare, trip in 1859 to Nashville-Tennessee, fifty men in uniform with six cannon, cheered along the route, Abraham Lincoln's election, an independent state, leader of the movement in Georgia, balcony, "there's narra no, Mayor Jones," two races, separated by climate-morals-religion, oil and water will not commingle, "an outrage upon Christianity," "law-abiding mass of the American people," Mason's and Dixon's line, mass of lawless godless fanatics, his empty house, "evil to come," Battle of Manassas, "Surely the God of Battles is with us," first lieutenant in his old company the Chatham Artillery, Camp Claghorn, white tents, overhanging oaks, "burnished" guns, garrison flag, "bold river," Port Royal, Georgia Sea Islands, "infamous pollution," "lawless and inhuman enemy," "a people armed in the holy cause of liberty," Patrick Henry's famous oration, aura of unreality, "perfect peace," when would the enemy attack, never had to endure the hardships of a long march, Port Royal, following the war from afar, strong religious sensibility, days of fasting, southern defeats as scourges from God, "day of retribution," Yankee villainy and southern rectitude, federal navy bombarded Charleston, an act of inhumanity, Emancipation Proclamation, "black and diabolical transactions," slavery was natural and proper condition for black, harsh penalties for unruly slaves, "terrible corporal punishment," Yankee captives, robbers and murderers, General Sherman, countless acts of violence and looting, Charles Jones's mother, repeatedly plundered.
4. Wheeler and Jones: William Wheeler opposed the gratuitous destruction of Southern property, each believed he was fighting for God's cause, another of the skirmishes, squarely in the chest, he was gone, Charles Jones, defeat after defeat, Confederacy, fewer men little industry , no navy, accommodation, manual labor, unaccustomed labor, law office in New York City, heart of Yankee land, one of the state's leading historians, "oil and water," ties of common character.
1. Viewing the Civil War through the lives of two soldiers: A unique position in American history, human scale, William Wheeler, Charles Colcock Jones, Civil War letters.
2. William Wheeler: Early Life and Civil War Soldiering: Artillery captain, William Tecumseh Sherman, Chattanooga, "quiet feeling of satisfaction and contentment," literature, killed fisherman, catching seventy-two trout, Yale, grow whiskers, secret society for scholars, studied law at Yale, grand tour of Europe, Australia, Gibraltar, wheat and bacon, study in Berlin, hiking the alps, legal studies, Harvard, New York, "the extreme Abolition edge of the Republican party," hoped for war, great sin expiated, "that I shall never see a holier cause to fight for," patriotism, Seventh Regiment, purchased a uniform, Mantanzas, "is not this God's cause," gigantic spree, Garibaldi, Union, "The Star-Spangled Banner," Potomac, Camp Cameron, makeshift cabins, slept under canvas, dwellings caught fire, stone fireplaces, pork barrels, "the fun ceases to be perceptible," crackers and coffee, meat and soup, salt horse and hard biscuit, mutton or chicken, "maize au naturel," "a shabby, muddy soldier," little holly-tree, prayer meeting, songs men sung by campfire, school for the soldiers, literacy, mountainous parts of Virginia, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, handkerchiefs, towels, and soap, glorious adventure, indecisive skirmishes, Robert E. Lee, Frederick County-Maryland, cups of cold water, speedy messenger, Gettysburg, ladies waving handkerchiefs and cheering, Cemetery Hill, "the air was literally alive with flying projectile," Confederate charges, the dismal march back to Virginia, minor actor in an epic drama, "joyous exaltation," battle become a way of life, infantryman's leg, "fine looking young Irishman," the certitude that he would be killed, wrote home, "I must fall," "my plighted bride," three-inch rifled guns, old friend, his horse, Barry, "Go! and he goeth," "extreme Emancipationist, knight on a crusade, goal to eradicate slavery, "steam engine in pantaloons," draft riots, Holy Grail, "ready to bear, believe, hope," able to inspire others, even hesitated to visit his family, soft-shell crab, "sensible chat over the apples and Madeira," details of daily life, "neat little touches thrown skillfully," "tried secessionists for breakfast,""unbridled enthusiasm," women "dresses in black," walked among the southerners, "prettiest girl in Virginia," enthralled by this she-rebel, "sweet Maud Muller," letter on the battlefield, young married lady in Georgia, "common humanity," mixed easily with the people, an old Presbyterian clergyman, troops that Sherman sent to Georgia.
3. Charles Colcock Jones, Jr.: Early Life and Civil War Soldiering: Charles Colcock Jones Jr., southern virtues, Savannah-Georgia, Presbyterian minister, three plantations, plantation wealth, Princeton, Harvard, Indian summer, attachment to the South, local Fourth of July Celebration, all firecrackers and rocks, fine orations, repelled by abolitionist, Anthony Burns, Charles F. Suttle, "Mob Jaw, perjury, free-soilism, and abolitionism," "his brother Southerner," beleaguered righteousness, southerners were different, misguided northerners, Ward, Owens, and Jones, volunteer Chatham Artillery Company, city alderman, Ruth Berrien Whitehead, mayor of Savannah, city alderman, paternalistic relationship between the master and the slave, "responsibilities," 129 blacks, Catechism of Scripture Doctrine and Practice (1837), The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States (1842), reopening of the slave trade, sold with their families, "lowest occupation," Richard Wayne, great procession, singing of hundreds of blacks, "We Are Passing Away," genuine community, white authority must prevail, hiring their labor, "quall sudden insurrection or domestic lawlessness," danger from North, sectional warfare, trip in 1859 to Nashville-Tennessee, fifty men in uniform with six cannon, cheered along the route, Abraham Lincoln's election, an independent state, leader of the movement in Georgia, balcony, "there's narra no, Mayor Jones," two races, separated by climate-morals-religion, oil and water will not commingle, "an outrage upon Christianity," "law-abiding mass of the American people," Mason's and Dixon's line, mass of lawless godless fanatics, his empty house, "evil to come," Battle of Manassas, "Surely the God of Battles is with us," first lieutenant in his old company the Chatham Artillery, Camp Claghorn, white tents, overhanging oaks, "burnished" guns, garrison flag, "bold river," Port Royal, Georgia Sea Islands, "infamous pollution," "lawless and inhuman enemy," "a people armed in the holy cause of liberty," Patrick Henry's famous oration, aura of unreality, "perfect peace," when would the enemy attack, never had to endure the hardships of a long march, Port Royal, following the war from afar, strong religious sensibility, days of fasting, southern defeats as scourges from God, "day of retribution," Yankee villainy and southern rectitude, federal navy bombarded Charleston, an act of inhumanity, Emancipation Proclamation, "black and diabolical transactions," slavery was natural and proper condition for black, harsh penalties for unruly slaves, "terrible corporal punishment," Yankee captives, robbers and murderers, General Sherman, countless acts of violence and looting, Charles Jones's mother, repeatedly plundered.
4. Wheeler and Jones: William Wheeler opposed the gratuitous destruction of Southern property, each believed he was fighting for God's cause, another of the skirmishes, squarely in the chest, he was gone, Charles Jones, defeat after defeat, Confederacy, fewer men little industry , no navy, accommodation, manual labor, unaccustomed labor, law office in New York City, heart of Yankee land, one of the state's leading historians, "oil and water," ties of common character.
