Ellen Renshaw House was only nineteen years old when she begins to write about her experiences in Knoxville. Originally she was born in Savannah, Georgia where her father would work as a customs collector and a trade Commissioner. Everything would soon change as her mother Frances Fannie House began to become ill. Her family then for her mother’s health moved to Marietta. Here Samuel Crawford House will make himself a name as a Planter and an owner of slaves in the town. Their stay in Marietta does not last long, as Ellen’s brother Sam moves to Knoxville to do business. He is able to convince his father that the best place to join together for business trade is Knoxville. Knoxville is a town that is split between Unionists and Rebels. Through …show more content…
this heat of conflict, Ellen will begin her diary. Her diary is one of the most important documents to explain what occurred during the war. It supplies ideas about what people thought during this time. Many of the details that occurred during the war will influence Renshaw to write about her own ideas. In Knoxville, Renshaw House was a very violent rebel because of her interactions with Union Soldiers, her anger towards people who took the Union oath, and her familial relations. Ellen Renshaw was a very violent rebel because of her interactions with Union Soldiers. She is a woman that is very open about what she thinks. This is proven when she is ordered out of Knoxville for insulting a Union officer’s wife. Ellen will continue to insult Union soldiers when one of them comments cruelly about the South. She tells the guy that her Confederate friends would not be afraid to make good use of the guns they caught from the Northerners. The point of all of this is that a woman is not to be this outspoken. Her language she states is very beautiful for a lady (Sutherland 116). Through these comments she provides that she wishes for the Confederates to achieve in their accomplishments to destroy the North. On the contrar, Ellen was a violent rebel when she . One nemesis is Mr. Brownlow who speaks highly of President Lincoln. Mr. Brownlow is the man that is thrown out of the South as he becomes way too critical about the southerners. He goes off to the North to further tarnish Southerners. A reason Renshaw does not like him is that he is the one that helps force her out of Knoxville urging General Carter due to her supposing being rude to Mr. Mcalisters wife. He is the Union soldier mentioned before. She truly wished However, Ellen becomes even angrier when others around her are in a hurry to take the oath in the North. Ellen really did not approve of this and thought it as a betrayal to the Confederate cause. Knoxville had a faulty line due to there being a split between Union Supporters and Rebel Supporters. Many people who did accept the oath at this time are in a hurry to get their businesses back on track. Ellen’s own father is one of the people that takes the loyalty oath. He is a business man that had a job to do. Ellen understood that her father had to do it in order to continue with his business, yet she is sicken that he did it. Women in the Confederacy will take oath due to them having nowhere to go. Ellen in her own way will avoid taking the oath. The way she avoids by taking the oath is by convincing herself that the Northerners did not care about the wellbeing of the south. When Reconstruction begins to start, she believes that the South has become a slave to the union. Many southern soldiers will have to take the oath to support the union. She describes the soldiers as miserable creatures (Sutherland 17). This is important as she feels sorry for the Southerners for being forced into submission. Morality of the Southerners in her eyes have been corrupted by the North. That why she avoids taking the oath. On the other hand, Ellen Renshaw House is a violent rebel due to her family relations.
When the war came her family did all they could to support the Confederate cause. Her brother William who married Jeanie Hazen Knoxville in 1860 will serve as a Governmental clerk. Much of her information about what was going on in the war came from her older brother William. She will write down every information that she receives from in her diary. She wanted to right all this down so that her other brother Johnnie could read it after the war is over. Johnnie is the brother that is captured by the Northerners in the war at Missionary Ridge. He served in the nineteenth regiment. When her brother is captured this absolutely devastates her. Her hatred even grows even more for the North. Ellen Renshaw House truly cared deeply about her brother and after his death after the war she refuses to write anymore. Her familial roots in the confederacy will continue with her Uncle Frank who serves as a general in the war. He will come to visit her one time after the war which is the time when Johnnie dies. Ellen sees her Uncle kind of as foolish thinking that someone is coming to arrest him. The reason for that is he is rejected the right to take the oath. He is thrown out of his own Brother in Law’s house for In conclusion, Ellen Renshaw House was a rebel because of her interactions with Union Soldiers, her anger towards people who took the Union oath, and her familial relations. The interactions
with the Union soldiers provides the information that she wanted the Southerners to destroy the Union. When people begin to take the oath in Knoxville she becomes very angry. It is like the Southerners are now slaves to the Union. Her familial ties help encourage Ellen to become dedicated to the Southern cause. One primary reason is that she was so worried about her brother during the war.
After being seriously injured in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Tom Bridwell spent some weeks in a hospital, and then went home to recuperate. Jem liked having his father home, but it seemed that they couldn’t even sit down to dinner without the conversation turning to war. Jem’s grandfather could never understand why Jem’s dad didn’t share his beliefs. Tom suddenly has to leave for the war again. Jem is being torn between the two men he loves. He comes to believe what his father believes in and wants to go fight for Mr. Lincoln, but chores at the farm, his age, and his grandfather is what keeps him home.
He demonstrates his aunt’s willingness to help writing: “‘I know that things are bad between you and your mom right now, and I just want you to know that I am on your side.’” Her generosity made a great impression on Andrews. He extends this thought further when he writes “‘And in the meantime, if you ever need to get away, my house is always open to you. And to Darian, too.’” The trust his aunt placed in him influenced him hugely in his life. He continues to impress this point recording: “I was grateful but shocked. She and Mom were really close, and for Susan to go behind Mom’s back like that was huge.” He used emotional change in order to exhibit how moved he was by the support he received from his family members even if it was only one ally who was on his side from the start. This abundant amount of assistance from his aunt causes the audience to empathize by relating personal experiences from their own families to the
The journey of Ruth Hall is having a family that would push her around to be more “ladylike.” She basically does what her family would tell her to do, which is not what Ruth Hall wanted. But to make her family happy, she ended up doing what her family told her to do in the first place. Her life is also tragic in her own way. It may not be like Linda Brent’s story of suffering through slavery. Ruth Hall’s story is more like suffering through the criticism of women. Hall’s life seemed to be okay at first since she has gotten married and had her first child. It was then that her life started to spiral with the death of her first daughter, then the death of her husband. Due to her husband passing away, her family and her in-law’s family believes she is no longer a capable woman to take care of her two children without a man in the house.
Her grandmother was a cruel old lady. Ellen spends the summer with her grandmother. Living with her makes her very unhappy. Since her grandmother owns farmland she forces Ellen to work on the field with her black servants. Ellen meets a black woman named Mavis.
In the young life of Essie Mae, she had a rough childhood. She went through beatings from her cousin, George Lee, and was blamed for burning down her house. Finally Essie Mae got the nerve to stand up for herself and her baby sister, Adline as her parents were coming in from their work. Her dad put a stop to the mistreatment by having her and her sister watched by their Uncle Ed. One day while Essie Mae's parents were having an argument, she noticed that her mothers belly was getting bigger and bigger and her mom kept crying more and more. Then her mother had a baby, Junior, while the kids were out with their Uncle Ed. Her uncle took her to meet her other two uncles and she was stunned to learn that they were white. She was confused by this but when she asked her mom, Toosweet, about it her mom would not give her an answer one way or the other. Once her mom had the baby, her father started staying out late more often. Toosweet found out that her dad was seeing a woman named Florence. Not long after this, her mother was left to support her and her siblings when her father left. Her mother ended up having to move in with family until she could obtain a better paying job in the city. As her childhood went on she started school and was very good at her studies. When she was in the fourth grade, her mom started seeing a soldier named Raymond. Not too long after this, her mother got pregnant and had James. Her mother and Raymond had a rocky relationship. When James was born, Raymond's mother came and took the baby to raise because she said that raising four children was too much of a burden for a single parent to handle. Raymond went back to the service for a while but then when he came back he and Toosweet had another baby. Raymond's brothers helped him build a new house for them to live in and they brought James back to live with them. During this time Essie Mae was working for the Claiborne family and she was starting to see a different point of view on a lot of things in life. The Claiborne's treated her almost as an equal and encouraged her to better herself.
This letter also shows the background a slave lived in and the encounters of their Masters they dealt with everyday. This letter also reveals the harsh reality of the South that not many men and women back then wanted to believe and it shows the relationship of a slave and the master as a dictatorship. However, with all the bad that happened in Anderson’s life, he is able to see the good in his new, free life in Dayton, Ohio. Anderson explains to Colonel Anderson the positive things about his life after being freed, including how happy it made him that the community recognized her as, Mrs. Anderson. He also states, “I get $25 a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy….Milly, Jane and Grandy, got to school and are learning well….”(Anderson, 474). Although Colonel Anderson had no real business knowing about his family, this gives a sense of how proud he was for his life turning
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