Transcript Harry Truman’s Family During the Civil War: The Impact of

Harry Truman’s Family During the Civil
War: The Impact of Historical Memory
Our own Historical Memory
Alonzo Hamby – In Man of the People
• “For the rest of their
lives, they harbored an
unquenchable hatred
for Abraham Lincoln,
blue uniforms, and
Kansans.”
Missouri Families During the Civil War
Fellman Synopsis, p. 11
• The Civil War in Missouri was a fairly simple affair. The Union remained
powerful enough militarily to maintain control of St. Louis, the railroads,
and those towns and railheads they garrisoned, often with non-Missouri
troops . . . . The Confederacy, which gained in popular appeal when
Missouri was “invaded” and occupied by often brutal military forces, was
too weak to mount a sustained and organized military effort in the state . .
. . Tens of thousands of pro-southern families remained hundreds of miles
behind Union lines, living next door to Unionists. Among these
secessionists, enraged by the mere fact of Union occupation as well as by
its excesses right on their doorsteps, were many young men of military age
who had not gone south to join the regular Confederate army. A majority
of Missourians were left confused and caught in the middle of a battle
they wanted to avoid. They remained loyal to the Union yet deeply
resentful of Federal force. They were to be whipsawed between the two
organized poles of power; in the destruction of the ensuing guerilla war,
the everyday translation of ideology became the question of which side
would enable them best to survive.
Cole Younger and Jesse James
Truman’s Family During the Civil War
Solomon Young
Truman’s Sister, Grandmother
Harriet and Uncle Harrison
Jayhawkers Jim Lane
and Charles Jennison
Jim Crow Chiles
Young Family Losses (claim: $21,442)
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15 mules and 13 horses
400 hogs (cut out hams leaving the rest to rot)
1,200 pounds of bacon
65 tons of hay
1,000 bushels of corn
44 head of hogs
feather beds
7 wagons
thousands of fence rails
150 head of cattle
FAMILY SILVER (according to family stories, but NOT in
claim)
Anderson Shipp Truman
Memories Still Raw to Some: Chris
Edwards, local Musician
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