Dec 26, 2010

Even More Ignoring of The Civil War...by the North!

     When I blogged earlier this month about the 2011 150th Anniversary of the war, I wrote that there seemed to be more notice given to the war in the North than here in the South...but New York State, which had as big a stake in the war as about any other, has no official recognition planned, according to the NY Times.
     There was a significant Alabama wartime connection with New York too...Raphael Semmes went there shopping for war supplies before the war, and once the fighting started, he sailed towards New York City to attack the Manhattan!
   In an earlier posting, I wrote about his journey on the CSS Alabama.
   You have to wonder how much the War anniversary would be ignored there if Semmes had not been blocked by ship damage from a hurricane and a shortage of coal for his boilers!
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3 comments:

  1. Jay CroftSunday, December 26, 2010 7:04:00 PM

    As the article says, various historical groups are planning commemorations. An official state commission is not needed for everything. Having one in NY State would open all sorts of problems. Pro-commission, anti-commissi0on. Pro commemoration, anti-commemoration. Pro-reenactment, anti-reenactment.

    It's not like Alabama, where our present governor, at his first inauguration, raised a toast with some "good ol' boys" to a painting of Robert E. Lee, and no one protested.

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  2. Jay CroftSunday, December 26, 2010 7:06:00 PM

    By the way, the article was poorly written. I found myself jumping back and forth between 1861 and 2011, sometimes in the same paragraph.

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  3. Robby Scott HillMonday, December 27, 2010 12:34:00 AM

    The investment bank Lehman Brothers was founded in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1858, Montgomery based Lehman opened a branch office in New York City which would eventually become their world headquarters. Lehman never forgot their Alabama roots & steered loans & business contracts to Alabama until their demise during the 2008 banking crisis
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers

    Irvine Bulloch, one of Admiral Semmes' officers on the CSS Alabama was the uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt, a New Yorker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Bulloch

    Theodore Roosevelt appointed the former Governor of Alabama, Thomas Goode Jones, to the federal bench. Jones often ruled in favor of the Roosevelt Administration & against Alabama's land barons.
    http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1463

    Whether the war happens in Alabama in the 1860s or Iraq in the 2000s, you'll find the same banking institutions financing both armies during the war & the victors during reconstruction.

    Don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers, make 'em be bankers.

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