The Creed of the Old South 1865 1915 (Audible Audio Edition) Basil L Gildersleeve John Michaels Spoken Realms Books
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"There is such a thing as fighting for a principle, an idea, but principle and idea must be incarnate, and the principle of states' rights was incarnate in the historical life of the Southern people. Submission to any encroachment on the rights of a State means slavery. To us, submission meant slavery, as it did to Pericles and the Athenians."
From the onset of the war, Basil L. Gildersleeve, native of Charleston, South Carolina, a scholar, and professor of Greek at the University of Virginia left his students every Spring to return to the army until he was wounded during a skirmish in the Shenadoah Valley in 1864. Thirty years later he authored The Creed of the Old South, and A Southerner in the Peloponnesian War included in this audiobook.
The Creed of the Old South 1865 1915 (Audible Audio Edition) Basil L Gildersleeve John Michaels Spoken Realms Books
Great little book which gives a perspective on why the men of the South fought so hard and were willing to give up everything for what they believed. The South was on the right side of history and eternity knows the truth. Their goal and mission was to preserve what was handed down to them by their fathers and the generation of 1776.Product details
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The Creed of the Old South 1865 1915 (Audible Audio Edition) Basil L Gildersleeve John Michaels Spoken Realms Books Reviews
This book (really a pamphlet) is more than just an apologia by a defeated rebel. It is an enlightened look at the motivations behind those who fought for the Confederacy, as well as the post-war adjustments they made.
The author makes a number of statements that I find hard to accept, but does it in such a way that is thought-provoking. For example, he maintains that the average rebel soldier had deep understanding of the politics of the time, that they were not mislead into war, and that slavery was only a test of a larger principle of local autonomy and not the proximate cause of the war.
I find his discussion of this last issue to be the most interesting. I have often thought that it was a shame that states' rights were decided over something as onerous as slavery. Had slavery not been the major force behind the war, the discussion of the limits of a central government might have been decided differently. As happened, local autonomy was (and is) discredited by the South's refusal to accept any method of or time table for the elimination of human bondage. I think it would be easier to protect ourselves from over-reaching federal government had we not thrown out all aspects of states' rights.
The author also makes other thought-provoking observations. Writing during reconstruction, he argues that the nation would have been better off if the southern states had been allowed to retain their state governments intact, rather than be subject to military rule. I am sure he is right -- were it not that he ignores reconstruction and post reconstruction racism.
His is a viewpoint forged and tempered in his times. But as he points out, it is important to know not just how wars end, but how they begin.
Another proof that just because something is out of copyright does not make "historic". This is in the same genre as the diaries, letters, and so forth by Civil War participants so popular in the first decades of the twentieth century. The frequent Greek quotations make parts unreadable. For a much better example of first person history, I recommend "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary".
Good look back at history nd the "why" of many things
Avery good read of the opinion of one who was there and lived through a very difficult time for Southerners.
Phenomenal book, timeless. This should make every reader understand that the reason that the Confederate soldiers took up arms was not malevolence for any race, but patriotism and love of home.
I have been interested in the causes and ramifications of the U.S. Civil was for awhile. This book has given me a rare opportunity to hear from the side that lost the war. They say that the victors write history so when the opportunity arises to hear from the other side I like to listen.
It's a short read, but it takes you through the actual times and gives you the mindset of southerners. It will make you consider the events going on, and how they got up to 1865. You will walk away with a different prospective than what you had from high school history and college classes on the period. I should note....there are at least a dozen passages in the book....which are great pieces of writing.
Great little book which gives a perspective on why the men of the South fought so hard and were willing to give up everything for what they believed. The South was on the right side of history and eternity knows the truth. Their goal and mission was to preserve what was handed down to them by their fathers and the generation of 1776.
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