Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (review)

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-288
Author(s):  
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Lost Cause ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory ◽  
Border State

scholarly journals Neo-Confederates take their stand: Southern Agrarians and the Civil War

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niall Munro
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lost Cause ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Allen Tate ◽  
Temporal Shape ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Civil War Memory

Ninety years ago, a group of twelve Southern intellectuals published I’ll Take My Stand, a manifesto dedicated to reviving Southern values and ideals in direct opposition to Northern industrialism and philosophy. Ever since 1930, the Southern Agrarians have been frequently presented as critics of modern life, but this kind of focus overshadows another way in which they were described in those early days: as neo-Confederates. The Agrarians’ ongoing and wide-ranging engagement with the Civil War ‐ especially in the work of Allen Tate and Donald Davidson ‐ was, I argue, hugely significant for the planning and writing of the manifesto. Examining the ways in which these writers used the war also shows how they sought to retard modernist progress, embrace failure as an element of Lost Cause ideology, and distort the temporal shape of Civil War memory. Furthermore, I show here how bound up in the manifesto and related writing by its contributors is a commitment to white supremacy and violence ‐ a kind of fanatical dedication that speaks to events in the United States today.

The Blue-Gray Campaign

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-151
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Lost Cause ◽  
Color Line ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory

This chapter investigates how Civil War memory informed the currents and contradictions of Populist thought. Populists painted themselves as neo-abolitionists fighting economic enslavement and combined antislavery vernacular with conceptions of modernity. Populism largely repudiated the Lost Cause. At the same time, the movement was profoundly shaped by the popular reconciliatory trends. This was especially true of the party’s 1892 blue-gray presidential campaign. While Populists attempted to circumvent North-South issues through class or vocational solidarity, regional and racial divisions proved ruinous. Though an effective and permanent coalition required the complete partnership of fully equal nonwhite laborers, Populist-style reconciliation often reinforced the color line even as it defied the Solid South and created new possibilities for Black political engagement.

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