HIST 459
Across
- 4. Ty Seidule attendees Washington and Lee University for the primary reason that he wanted to become a southern ___.
- 7. In chapter 6, Seidule describes an “aha moment” that changed him as he found that West Point had more monuments to Robert E Lee than W&L University. One type of movement, in particular, generated more Confederate memorialization at West Point than any other. Name it.
- 9. Seidule, to close chapter 5, writes that the US Army post names “should reflect the best of the United States and it’s army, not the __.”
- 10. The last name of the famous former Union Army officer-turned-historian who spewed your a throughly racist Lost Cause narrative to the delight of the audience at Lee’s centennial celebration in 1907.
- 13. The US Army’s Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, which may soon be renamed Fort Eisenhower, was originally named for the Confederate general who, after the war, was a Grand Dragon of his organization
- 14. Name the former Confederate Army Commander who gave a speech at Lee Chapel in 1872 which became one of the first published versions of the Lost Cause Narrative.
Down
- 1. Two issues sear Siedule’s soul. One is slavery, what’s the other?
- 2. What former religious rites and rituals were observed in Lee Chapel?
- 3. The evidence is clear: Robert E. Lee flight for ___ slavery.
- 5. Seidule’s answer to the problem of Confederate memorialization alongside the minimizing or distancing of African American history is “more” what?
- 6. According to Seidule, the “religion” of the old south is…
- 7. Lasy name of the first African American to complete college in the United Dtates of America (in 1813 at Washington College)
- 8. During Seidule’s years as a student as Washington and Lee, Robert E. Lee was worshiped as __.
- 11. Throughout his book, he argues that history is too what?
- 12. Washington's college’s economic survival in the 19th century was directly related to profits from __.