From: HADCRJAM@admin.uh.edu (MILLER, JIMMY A.)
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Subject: Re: White Resistance in the North
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:57:09 GMT
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In <1993Jan10.194857.5880@leland.Stanford.EDU> whale@leland.Stanford.EDU writes:

> In article <1ipbtsINN5ro@gap.caltech.edu> morphy@cco.caltech.edu (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:
> >into the Union. I'm curious about similar episodes in the North, which 
> >naturally would have been suppressed by the propaganda machine most white
> >Americans call "history".
> 
> Three episodes you might want to look into:
> 1. Anti-draft rioting in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, which seems to have
> been motivated in part by tension between Irish Catholics and English
> Protestants, in the summer of 1863.
> 2. Concealment of deserters, and the sending of Federal troops to dig them
> out, in Williamson County, Illinois in the spring of 1863, which seems to
> have been motivated by opposition to emancipation.
> 3. Anti-draft rioting in Port Washington, Wisconsin, also in summer 1863,
> which appears to have just been anti-draft rioting.
> 
> Some books which might be interesting:
> 
> Abraham Lincoln and the Fifth Column, George Fort Milton. New York, 1942.
> Abraham Lincoln and Men of War Times, Alexander McClure. Philadelphia,
> 1892. McClure was in charge of enforcing the Pennsylvania draft.
> The Hidden Civil War, the Story of the Copperheads, Wood Gray. New York, 1942.
> Labor Disturbances in Pennsylvania, 1850-1880, J Walter Coleman. Washington
> DC 1936.
> The Molly Maguires, Anthony Bimba. New York, 1932.
> Old-Time Notes of Pennsylvania, Alexander McClure. Philadelphia, 1905. Same
> McClure as above.
> A True History of the Reign of Terror in Southern Illinois, James D. Fox.
> Aurora Illinois, 1884. (No way!  Way!)

  And also _Battle Cry of Freedom_, and _The Negro in the Civil War_, both by
James M. Mcpherson.  _Battle_ describes the Copperhead movement and other
anti-emancipation efforts as a part of its over-all coverage of the period.
The latter is a collection of writings and quotes from African-Americans of
the time period related to the Civil War, ant touches upon these events also.

> All this information came from my copy of Glory Road and its bibliography,
> so I'm not sure on what grounds we would claim that this has been "supressed"
> by a "propoganda machine". None of these books are either difficult to learn
> about, or hard to find if you have access to a decent library.

  _Battle_ won the Pulitzer, I believe.  _TNitCW_ has been through several 
printings and first came out in the 60's, if I recall correctly.


semper fi,

Jammer Jim Miller 
Texas A&M University '89 and '91
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