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TO THE EDITOR: I have just visited, in compan of my host Michael Harrington, President of the Houston Civil War Round Table, the Museum of Southern History in Houston. An exhibit that caught my eye was a Confederate soldier’s pocket diary inscribed by a “Parson Baldwin,” writing in February 1864. I was struck by what was added under his name: “during Civil War Between States Over Freedom of States Rights.” If there is importance to what combatants call their conflicts, this one deserves contemplation. On another note. Re: “ongoing cultu conversation”
symposium in Nashville. One speaker made a point of stating that Confederate monuments were raised in the South during the late 19th Century as reminders to Blacks that Jim Crow was
I raised my hand, countering that scholarship demonstrated that the heyday of monument
that many Northern statues to Union veterans were erected in the same era.
the evidence. It is not on you side.” He declared that the ne period of Confederate monument building occurred in the mid1960s, when white Southerners opposed federal civil rights a reminded him that 1961-65 were the years of the Centennial, w Americans memorialized the war further. By this time, I was standing the front row. The speaker approached me: “Your face is red Sit down!” My response: “I am not your student, sir!” Of course, at the end of the session we shook hands, laughe and parted as friends. But it goes to show--here I
years, we’re “still Rebels, st Yankees.” Stephen Dav
cludes a schola uarterly magazi h an annual twe int uniform ser
