The Black Forrest
07-09-2005, 20:26
I figured why not have something different from the usual hate the shrub, hate the libs, abortion, religion and evolution talk. ;)
I mentioned in the past of discovering relations that I did not know I had. One was Cornelia Peake McDonald wife of Angus W. McDonald III who founded the 7th Virgina Cavalry and was friends with and served on the Staff of Jefferson Davis.
Cornelia wrote a diary that is still published today. "A Womans Civil War" A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862.
It is not a book to read if you want info about battle. Angus asked her to keep it so that he would not miss things while he was away.
It offers insight to the thoughts of a woman and what she went through during the war. She lived in Winchester which taken and retaken several times. She saw Stonewall Jackson at her Church. Faced down many Union attempts to take her house. Eventually became a refugee to the point of begging for shoes for her children....
There have been many arguments of the "evil" of Lincoln and some here have even mentioned the service done by Booth. Cornelia wrote the following at the time. Lee had surrendered and the war was over....
Page 234-235
....All the Northern papers I saw were full of joy and exultation over the great victory; and there was much less bitterness expressed than I supposed would be; indeed, they seemed ready to welcome the poor Southern rebels as friends, now that they could fight no longer, and compel them to waste their money on the sinews of war. Now they could return to their money-getting, thanks to the poor rebels who had been whipped.
Some papers even ventured to suggest that Gen. Lee should to to the Norht and show himself, saying that if he would do so, he would receive an ovation such as no Hero ever had, not even Grant.
They admired his high character, and appreciated his soldierly qualities, as well as his military greatness, and I believe that if his proud humility would have suffered him to make himself a spectacle to be gazed at, they would have showered honours on him. They were accustomed to such coarse-minded heros as Grant, and such vain-glorious boasters as McClellan, and Pope, and they could not understand such a man as our Hero was.
In a very short time the kind and forebearing feelins our late enemies seemed to entertain for us were displaced by bitter hatred and furious rage, for when the bullet Booth took away the life of Lincoln hey took for granted that it was the act of the Southern leaders and people who had, as they were persuaded, prompted the deed. I cannot deny that when I first heard of the taking off of Lincoln, I thought it was just what he deserved; he that had urged on and promoted a savage war that had cost so many lives; but a little reflection made me see that it was worse for us than if he had been suffered to live, for his satisifaction had been great when we were disarmed, and he was disposed to be merciful. Now no mercy was to be expected from a nation of infuriated fanatics whose idol of clay had been cast down.
We expected nothing but that the Southern people would be accused of planning the murder and procuring its execution; we knew that vengence would be taken and that the crime would be visited upon our leaders, and prominent men who would be the most assailable objects for their vengeance; but were not prepared for the extent of diabolical rage which they manifested in their treatment of President Davis when he fell into their hands, or that pitiless fury should demand that a helpless and innocent woman, innocent, as their own failure to prosecute her son proved, should perish at the hands of the hang man.
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I thought I would share so take it what you will after all it's just the opinions of one woman. However, for me at least, it's an interesting viewpoint.
I have argued that Lincolns death allowed for the Grant Administration and the general abuse of the South...
Is Booth a hero or an idiot?
I mentioned in the past of discovering relations that I did not know I had. One was Cornelia Peake McDonald wife of Angus W. McDonald III who founded the 7th Virgina Cavalry and was friends with and served on the Staff of Jefferson Davis.
Cornelia wrote a diary that is still published today. "A Womans Civil War" A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862.
It is not a book to read if you want info about battle. Angus asked her to keep it so that he would not miss things while he was away.
It offers insight to the thoughts of a woman and what she went through during the war. She lived in Winchester which taken and retaken several times. She saw Stonewall Jackson at her Church. Faced down many Union attempts to take her house. Eventually became a refugee to the point of begging for shoes for her children....
There have been many arguments of the "evil" of Lincoln and some here have even mentioned the service done by Booth. Cornelia wrote the following at the time. Lee had surrendered and the war was over....
Page 234-235
....All the Northern papers I saw were full of joy and exultation over the great victory; and there was much less bitterness expressed than I supposed would be; indeed, they seemed ready to welcome the poor Southern rebels as friends, now that they could fight no longer, and compel them to waste their money on the sinews of war. Now they could return to their money-getting, thanks to the poor rebels who had been whipped.
Some papers even ventured to suggest that Gen. Lee should to to the Norht and show himself, saying that if he would do so, he would receive an ovation such as no Hero ever had, not even Grant.
They admired his high character, and appreciated his soldierly qualities, as well as his military greatness, and I believe that if his proud humility would have suffered him to make himself a spectacle to be gazed at, they would have showered honours on him. They were accustomed to such coarse-minded heros as Grant, and such vain-glorious boasters as McClellan, and Pope, and they could not understand such a man as our Hero was.
In a very short time the kind and forebearing feelins our late enemies seemed to entertain for us were displaced by bitter hatred and furious rage, for when the bullet Booth took away the life of Lincoln hey took for granted that it was the act of the Southern leaders and people who had, as they were persuaded, prompted the deed. I cannot deny that when I first heard of the taking off of Lincoln, I thought it was just what he deserved; he that had urged on and promoted a savage war that had cost so many lives; but a little reflection made me see that it was worse for us than if he had been suffered to live, for his satisifaction had been great when we were disarmed, and he was disposed to be merciful. Now no mercy was to be expected from a nation of infuriated fanatics whose idol of clay had been cast down.
We expected nothing but that the Southern people would be accused of planning the murder and procuring its execution; we knew that vengence would be taken and that the crime would be visited upon our leaders, and prominent men who would be the most assailable objects for their vengeance; but were not prepared for the extent of diabolical rage which they manifested in their treatment of President Davis when he fell into their hands, or that pitiless fury should demand that a helpless and innocent woman, innocent, as their own failure to prosecute her son proved, should perish at the hands of the hang man.
-----
I thought I would share so take it what you will after all it's just the opinions of one woman. However, for me at least, it's an interesting viewpoint.
I have argued that Lincolns death allowed for the Grant Administration and the general abuse of the South...
Is Booth a hero or an idiot?