Status Updates From A Shattered Nation: The Ris...

Learned about the poem The Conquered Banner.

Learned about Confederate spy John C. Brain.

Learned about the 4th Michigan Cavalry Regiment.

Learned about the 56th Virginian Infantry Regiment.

“The initial secession conventions, where men voted to leave the Union, often focused on slavery as a dividing force. According to one Alabama delegate, slavery was simply ‘the cause of secession’”
The Confederacy was indeed based on ‘states rights’. Including most prominently, the one to own human beings. It’s everywhere in the record you want to look

“Kate Cumming asked a doctor why one of the men under her care had deserted, and ‘he answered nothing would have made him except an earnest appeal from his wife, and that the women were the cause of nearly all the desertions’”
Being a Southern woman must’ve seemed at times like you were on the one hand this virginal symbol of the nation but also some kind of demonic temptress

“Over three quarters of the books published for children in the Confederacy were schoolbooks…Confederates wanted to make sure that their children learned the lessons of nationalism”

A delightful and interesting read so far.

In a word: boring. I'm ready to through with this book. I had such high hopes for it.

Wish author included footnotes at bottom of page instead of back of book. Breaks my stride when I have to go to back of book to read notes.