Chapter 4 ‘The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest’ Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran’s Memoir, 1866–1915

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chapter 1 Making Sense of the Muddle: War Memoirs and the Culture of Remembering 1
5. Chapter 2 War Memoirs, Witnessing and Silence 27
6. Chapter 3 ‘A Lively School of Writing’ George Gleig, Moyle Sherer and the Romantic Military Memoir 48
7. Chapter 4 ‘The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest’ Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran’s Memoir, 1866–1915 73
8. Chapter 5 British Memoirs and Memories of the Great War 94
9. Chapter 6 A Cog in the Machine of History? Japanese Memoirs of Total War (1937–45) 111
10. Chapter 7 Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War 143
11. Chapter 8 Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic 168
12. Chapter 9 The War That Was Not 1948 Israeli War Memoirs 193
13. Chapter 10 Remembering the ‘Endless’ Partition: From Memoirs about the 1947 Conflict to the Post-Memoir 208
14. Chapter 11 ‘To Be Made Over’ Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp Narratives 229
15. Chapter 12 Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran’s Story 252
16. Chapter 13 Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism: British Combat Memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006–14 277
17. Index 301