Steam Ship Historicism
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For 10 Dollars the paddlewheel steamship will take a person anywhere along the river. The year was 1859 and composer Daniel Emmett wrote and published a popular song of the time. “Dixie” specifically referred to a privately issued ten-dollar currency from banks in Louisiana and mainly distributed through gambling, trade, and transportation on the wide area portage of southern river steamers. The United States government set in motion the issuance of the Greenbacks, a legal tender currency not exchangeable for gold. The speculative person understood the probabilities of an eventual gold redemption, for the Greenbacks, greatly depended on the Union Army and political developments. My United States History Professor clearly stated, “This is, only one of the contributing factors to the Civil War.”
On this Memorial Day, I wanted to write of the first Memorial Day in the United States and this is where my quest brought me.
The divisions became quite evident during the 1860 presidential election and the electorate split four ways. The Southern Democrats approved slavery, while the Republicans denounced it. The Northern Democrats required the ‘people’ to decide on the issue, and, the Constitutional Union Party proclaimed the continued existence of our Union is at stake. Thus our nation experienced the deadliest war in American history, causing 620,000 soldier deaths and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Upon its conclusion, it ended slavery in the United States and restored the Union by settling the issues of southern state nullifications.
The site was a historic racetrack in Charleston, a former Confederate prison camp as well as an impetuous cemetery for Union soldiers who died in captivity. The freed slaves reinterred the dead Union soldiers from a mass grave to individual graves, fenced in the burial grounds, and constructed an arched entry announcing the Union graveyard- a very daring thing to do in the South shortly after the North's victory. On 30 May 1868 the freed slaves returned to the graveyard with flowers picked from the countryside and decorated the individual gravesites, thereby creating the very 1st Decoration Day. A parade with thousands of people, including freed slaves and Union soldiers, followed with patriotic singing and a picnic.
Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates United States men and women who perished while in military service to their country. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War, it expanded after World War I to include casualties of any war or military action.
I hope you had a safe holiday,
Reach
For 10 Dollars the paddlewheel steamship will take a person anywhere along the river. The year was 1859 and composer Daniel Emmett wrote and published a popular song of the time. “Dixie” specifically referred to a privately issued ten-dollar currency from banks in Louisiana and mainly distributed through gambling, trade, and transportation on the wide area portage of southern river steamers. The United States government set in motion the issuance of the Greenbacks, a legal tender currency not exchangeable for gold. The speculative person understood the probabilities of an eventual gold redemption, for the Greenbacks, greatly depended on the Union Army and political developments. My United States History Professor clearly stated, “This is, only one of the contributing factors to the Civil War.”
On this Memorial Day, I wanted to write of the first Memorial Day in the United States and this is where my quest brought me.
The divisions became quite evident during the 1860 presidential election and the electorate split four ways. The Southern Democrats approved slavery, while the Republicans denounced it. The Northern Democrats required the ‘people’ to decide on the issue, and, the Constitutional Union Party proclaimed the continued existence of our Union is at stake. Thus our nation experienced the deadliest war in American history, causing 620,000 soldier deaths and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Upon its conclusion, it ended slavery in the United States and restored the Union by settling the issues of southern state nullifications.
The site was a historic racetrack in Charleston, a former Confederate prison camp as well as an impetuous cemetery for Union soldiers who died in captivity. The freed slaves reinterred the dead Union soldiers from a mass grave to individual graves, fenced in the burial grounds, and constructed an arched entry announcing the Union graveyard- a very daring thing to do in the South shortly after the North's victory. On 30 May 1868 the freed slaves returned to the graveyard with flowers picked from the countryside and decorated the individual gravesites, thereby creating the very 1st Decoration Day. A parade with thousands of people, including freed slaves and Union soldiers, followed with patriotic singing and a picnic.
Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates United States men and women who perished while in military service to their country. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War, it expanded after World War I to include casualties of any war or military action.
I hope you had a safe holiday,
Reach
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