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Red String Scare: Civil War Southwest Virginia and the Heroes of America
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21568
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Abstract:
This article re-examines and alters Henry T. Shanks's thesis in 'Disloyalty to the Confederacy in Southwestern Virginia, 1861-1865,' in the 1944 issue of the North Carolina Historical Review. In his article, Shanks relies exclusively on Confederate War Department findings regarding whether a majority of the region's residents openly opposed the Confederate States of America. Confederate agents used flawed investigative practices and overestimated the extent of disloyalty, especially membership in the Heroes of America. In post-war southwestern Virginia and in disagreement of Confederate reports and predictions, no Republican Party developed in the region and the Southern Claims Commission showed little evidence of rampant membership in the Heroes of America.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 69 Issue 3, July 1992,
p301-322 , il, por, map, f
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