Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina

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Index ‘‘A Plea for Young Soldiers,’’ 24 absent fathers, 30 adulthood, passing to, 2 African American History Monument, 135 age of enlistment, 14 Anderson, Major Robert H., 6, 8 anti-Semitism, 89 Antietam, 21 artisans and, 78 demoralization after, 86–87 army reorganization, 140 artificial limbs, 110 artisans Antietam and, 78 blacksmiths, 79 Lowcountry, 77 millers, 78 shoemakers, 79 Upcountry, 77 babies, 33, 34 balls, mourners attending, 68 Baptist Sunday schools, 51 Battle of Fort Wagner, 32 Battle of Honey Hill, 23 Battle of Secessionville reenactment, 133 Battle of the Crater, 27 bazaar in State Legislature, 92–93 Beauregard, General P. G. T., 11, 20, 33, 62, 99 Birth of a Nation, 128 black children, 2 attending school with white, 123 education, 108 Klan violence and, 117 black franchise, limiting, 124 black men living with white women, 69 black middle class, 123 black ministers’ millennial interpretation of war, 108 Black Republicanism, 3 black suffrage, 109 black women Confederate soldiers’ sexual activity, 69 Sherman’s army and, 94 blacksmiths, 79 bloomers, 68 Blythwood Female Academy, 54 boy soldiers, 14 ‘‘A Plea for Young Soldiers,’’ 24 Antietam, 21 capture, 22 compulsion to serve, 17 couriers, 19 drill units, 6 drum corps, 18 elite women and, 15 guards, 19 Hampton’s scouts, 21 imprisonment, 22 Joe Brown’s Pets, 21 mail carriers, 19 malleability, 21 Marine School, 18 orderlies, 19 physical immaturity of, 20 proclamation allowing sixteen-yearolds , 23 returned to parents, 16–17 running away to join war, 16 vigilance associations, 6 war as ticket to manhood, 16 boys of ’64, 14 boys’ play, 6 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 130 Bull Run victory, schools and, 51 burning Yankee schoolbooks, 61 Camden Archives and Museum, dolls, 37 Camden Male Academy, 51 Camden Orphan Society, 104 198 Index cancer, 85–86 Carolina Zouaves, 13 casualties of war, 110 Catholic Sisters of Mercy, 51, 104 cavalrymen, horses and, 38 Chapin, Sarah F. (‘‘Sallie’’), 13, 64, 93, 94, 103, 104, 112, 124, 128 Chaplain to the Confederacy, 8 Charleston, 98, 100 Charleston battery, 7 Charleston public school system, 12 Chesnut, Mary father-in-law and, 65 Jews and, 89 militia of boys and old men, 15 child rearing cooperation in, 3 discipline, 35 gender and, 30 modern fathers, 33 nursing, 34 patriarchy and, 32 spanking, 34 weaning babies, 34 childcare, slave women and, 40 childhood, 2, 65 children Congressional Reconstruction and, 109 farmers and, 65 naming, 33 raising money, 12 Sherman’s army and, 96 slaying as retaliation, 10 Children’s Crusade, 11 children’s literature, 50, 62 China dolls, 37 christening of Palmetto State, 59 Christian families, 30 Church Babies, 37 Citadel, 23, 55, 102, 126, 133 Civil Rights Act of 1965, 130 Civil War reenactments, 133 class divisions, prewar politics and, 58 clergy, exemption of preachers, 8 collective memory, 3 College of Charleston, 55 Columbia, burning, 93 commodities shortages, 75 common-law marriages, interracial marriages , 69 companions, women as, 33 Confederacy, passports to leave, 90 Confederate Baptist, 59–60 bazaar at State Legislature, 93 fashion, 68, 69 Little Nell, 62–64 mourners attending balls, 68 Tom Brown, 62–64 Uncle Fabian, 62–64 Confederate Educational Association, religion and education, 60 Confederate flag, 4, 102, 123, 127, 133–34, 136 Confederate Memorial Day, 102, 127 Confederate monument of Abbeville, fire damage, 132 Confederate Phoenix, 121, 123 Confederate press, 10 Confederate secretary of war, letters to, 75 Confederate soldiers, sexual activity with black women, 69 Confederate textbook movement, 61 Confederate Veteran, 125 conflicting legacies, 3 Congressional Reconstruction, 108 children and, 109 conscription attack against government and, 89 complaints, 87 Conscription Act of April 1862, 14 age limit changes, 42 Cumming family and, 45 exemptions, 141 Harris family and, 43 teachers and, 51 Uncle Fabian and, 62 conscription of horses, 37 cooperation in child rearing, 3 couriers, boy soldiers as, 19 courting, 66 age of onset for girls, 67 fickleness of suitors, 71 forbidden behavior, 67 Yankee ideas, 67 crow soup, 39 Cumming family, 44–46 Dances, 67, 68 Davis, Jefferson, 5, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 19, 30, 71, 76, 89, 91 death, 39 addressing with children, 39 children’s friends, 40 emotions and, 40 Index 199 as legacy of war, 109–10 male children and, 40 women’s dress, 39 defense of the household, dogs and, 37 deserters, 19, 27, 70, 90, 111 details, definition, 138 disabled soldiers, marriage to, 72 discharges definition, 138 kidney ailments...