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Jul 5 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
We at The Civil War and the Fight for the Soul of America seek to educate people about the REAL history of the mid-nineteenth century and the Civil War, through the film itself, public history, and social media. We need your help to continue with this vitally important project!
For far too long our history has been white-washed, made to fit a Lost Cause narrative. The North may have won the Civil War, but the white South won the cultural war - a crisis that continues to plague America today.
We have set up a @gofundme page to aid fundraising efforts with a goal of $23,000!

With your donation you create jobs for M.A. and Ph.D.-level historians to work as research assistants: every single dime goes to paying them!

You can find our page here: gofund.me/fa492df5
Whether pulling images and photos, helping research storylines, or creating great social media content, our researchers are committed to democratizing knowledge, and making this world a better place. Thank you so much for your support and please retweet and share!
For our Patreon subscribers we have two new scholar interviews with @anya_jabour and @cybersmith722. If you aren’t a subscriber sign up at the $10+ level for access to view these and our other interviews! Sign up here: Patreon.com/thecivilwardoc
Depending on your level of donation, subscribing to our Patreon page grants you access to scholar interviews, book giveaways, project updates, and invitations to future historian happy hours!
We would like to share some of the updates and exciting events going on with @TheCivilWarDoc1

First, we have officially started filming! In late April we filmed our first two days of interviews.
We are currently editing that into reel so that we can apply for some of the bigger grants.

If you haven't had the opportunity to check out our sizzle reel (3 minutes), head over to our GoFund Me page!
Make one-time donations through our Venmo (account.venmo.com/u/TheCivilWarD…) or PayPal accounts (paypal.com/paypalme/theci…).

#TheCivilWarDoc #fundraising #fundraiser #GoFundMe #gofundmecampaign #DonateOrShare #Patreon #History #Documentary #history #docuseries
Read this article from @KeriLeighMerrit on why we need a new Civil War documentary in @SmithsonianMag.

smithsonianmag.com/history/why-we…

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Jul 6
Edmond Pettus was born #OTD in 1821 in Limestone County, Alabama. He served as an officer in the Confederate Army and as a US senator after the War. He was also active in the Ku Klux Klan, serving as its Grand Dragon in Alabama. He is the namesake of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Image
Born into an enslaving family, Pettus built a successful law career before enlisting in the Confederate Army when war broke out. While most of his home region of northern Alabama did not support secession, Pettus did. He was a pro-slavery ideologue steered by white supremacy.
During the War he rose to the rank of Brig. General and was captured as a POW three times. He was pardoned by Andrew Johnson on October 30, 1865. Pettus returned to Selma after the War and resumed his law practice.
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Jul 5
#OTD in 1852 Frederick Douglass recited "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" before the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society at Corinthian Hall. Douglass attacked slavery by highlighting how white Americans could celebrate freedom while enslaving others.
Douglass referenced the Bible, Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution to argue that as long as slavery existed that Independence Day would be a day of mourning for African Americans, especially the enslaved.
He proclaimed "...justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
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Jul 4
#OTD in history Union General U. S Grant defeated confederate forces at Vicksburg, dealing a huge blow to the Confederacy by gaining control of the Mississippi River. Confederates we also defeated at Ft. Helena and Robert E. Lee began his retreat from Pennsylvania.
Regiments of the United Stares Colored Troops played a pivotal role in the Union victory at Ft. Helena in particular. With control of Vicksburg and Ft. Helena, the Union Army gained control of the strategically important Mississippi River.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis claimed that Vicksburg was “the nailhead that held the South’s two halves together.” Union control of Vicksburg splintered off Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas from the rest of the Confederacy.
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Jul 3
The Battle of Gettysburg ended #OTD in 1863 halting Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North. There were 51,112 casualties at Gettysburg, more than any battle during the Civil War. Check out our 🧵 about General Meade here:
The battle effectively ended after Pickett's Charge, a full frontal Confederate assault on the Union's strongest position on Cemetery Hill. Lee was forced to retreat back to Virginia and abandon planes to attack Washington via Pennsylvania. Image
Approximately 12,500 men participated in Picket's Charge. Of those, almost 60% became casualties during the assault.
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May 13
#OTD in 1862 Newton Knight reenlisted in the Confederate Army after being on furlough. He originally enlisted in July of 1861. He deserted in October of 1862 and headed home after he received word the Confederate Army had taken his family's horses for the war effort.
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Knight was a yeoman farmer in Jones County, Mississippi when the war broke out. According to historian @vikki_bynum, only 12% of the county's population was Black and most whites were subsistence farmers like Knight.
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May 12
The Battle of Palmito Ranch was fought in Texas #OTD in 1865. The Confederate victory is widely considered the last battle of the Civil War. The battle occurred over one month after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox and two days after Jefferson Davis was captured. Image
Both sides knew the war was virtually over, but a small contingent of Confederate forces refused to surrender near Brownsville, Texas. Many of the men serving under the Union Army there were members of the United States Colored Troops.
A fragile cease fire had been agreed to between the two sides on May 11. However, Confederate Lt. Gen. Edmund Smith of the Trans-Mississippi Department refused to accept the inevitable end of the war.
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