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- W1997821110 abstract "“Baptized in Fire”: Confederate Diarist James Hudson and the Uniontown Canebrake Rifle Guards In May 1861 Private James Hudson of the Uniontown Canebrake Rifle Guards, Company D of the Fourth Alabama Infantry Regiment, made an extraordinary statement.1 The thirty-nine-year-old newlywed and slaveholding merchant declared the Civil War was not a conflict between the North and South or the United States and Confederate governments. Rather the South and one man, Abraham Lincoln, were at war. The remarkable notion endured. Reminiscing about the late antebellum and early wartime years in 1916, Ella Christian, an affluent white author from Perry County, remembered the fall of 1860 being “one of great unrest, very different from the easy and careless life of the Old South, for we realized that if Lincoln was elected it meant secession.”2 And ultimately secession meant war. The Uniontown Canebrake Rifle Guards of Perry County were organized on January 1, 1861, and incorporated on February 21. Bertis English Bertis English is associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and associate professor of history at Alabama State University. He thanks Richard Bailey, William Dowdy, Patience Essah, Wayne Flynt, Sharron Herron-Williams, Thelma Ivery, Larry Gerber , Kenneth Noe, and Joyce Yette for reading previous drafts of the essay. He also thanks the editors and outside reviewers of the Alabama Review for their excellent observations and recommendations as well as the staffs of the Alabama Department of Archives and History and the Virginia Historical Society for kindly agreeing to help locate primary sources and obtain biographical information about individuals. The author owes a special debt of gratitude to Dr. Noe for encouraging him to submit the essay to the Review and, moreover, for being exceptionally patient throughout the development process. 1 James G. Hudson Diary, 1861, SPR 327, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery (hereafter cited as Hudson Diary, ADAH); Alma H. Pate, ed., “A Story of Company D, 4th Alabama Regiment, C.S.A., by James G. Hudson, ‘Chaplain and Treasurer ’,” Alabama Historical Quarterly 23 (Spring and Summer, 1961): 139–79. 2 Ella Storrs Christian, “The Days that are No More,” Alabama Historical Quarterly 14 (Fall and Winter, 1952): 332; Alabama Civil War Service Database, ADAH, accessed July 4, 2010, http://www.archives.alabama.gov/civilwar/search.cfm (hereafter cited as Service Database , ADAH); Jeffrey D. Stocker, ed., From Huntsville to Appomattox: R. T. Cole’s History of the 4th Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A., Army of Northern Virginia (Knoxville, 1996), 231n1. Uniontown also was known as Wood Ville (or Woodville). the alabama review 86 The unit’s name derived from the Alabama subregion where Perry is located.3 Most of the Canebrakers’ activities—from their formation through their July 21 baptism by fire at the First Battle of Manassas—were recorded in a diary kept by Hudson, their chaplain and treasurer.4 In it he penned eloquent and informative entries on typical and atypical war news. He included information about accidents , black body servants, civilian reactions to war, food, equipment, the competency of officers, and the environment. He also discussed flag captures, marches, morale and morality, newspaper reports, skirmishes , soldiers’ courageousness and discipline, strategic planning and tactics, wartime economics, and religion.5 Hudson’s entries offer a firsthand account of what combat was and was not like for the Canebrakers and their Fourth Alabama comrades during “battle summer” 1861, and place the company in the context of the regiment’s storied history.6 Though the Canebrakers and thousands of other Perry whites served the Confederacy, the county was not home to many immedi3 A different Canebrake company had been raised in 1858. See Confederate Regimental History Files: 4th (3rd) Alabama Infantry Regiment, SG24889 (hereafter cited as Fourth Alabama Regimental History Files, ADAH); W. Stuart Harris, Perry County Heritage (Marion, 1991), 189; Hudson Diary, ADAH. The Canebrake was commonly called the Black Belt or the Cotton Belt. In the text, the author uses Canebrake when referencing the unit to which James Hudson belonged and Black Belt for geographical purposes. 4 Confederates tended to name battles after nearby towns and Federals such natural features as waterways. Thus Manassas was known as Bull..." @default.
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