Your class was introduced to the Reconstruction of the South on Mon., 10/4, and Wed., 10/5. Please click on the YouTube link below to listen to a song written by a former Confederate Army officer after the Civil War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yooAFCUqe0o
Lyrics:
Oh, I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am.
And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn.
I’m glad I fought agin’ her, I only wish we’d won,
And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done.
I hates the Yankee nation, and everything they do;
I hates the Declaration of Independence, too.
I hates the glorious Union, ‘tis dripping with our blood;
And I hates the striped banner – I fit [fought] it all I could.
I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years nearabout,
Got wounded in four places and I starved at Point Lookout.
I cotch [caught] the rheumatism a-campin’ in the snow,
But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’.
Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in Southern dust;
We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever, and Southern steel and shot;
And I wish they were three million instead of what we got.
I can’t take up my musket and fight ‘em now no more,
But I ain’t gonna love ‘em, now that is certain sure.
And I don’t want no pardon for what I was and am,
And I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.
Oh, I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am.
And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn.
I’m glad I fought agin’ [against] her, I only wish we’d won,
And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done.
•“The Good Old Rebel” was very popular among former Confederate soldiers who disliked the Reconstruction policies of the federal government.
•Many of these former rebels headed west to Texas and Mexico to avoid Reconstruction.
•This song exemplifies the resistance and anger that many Southerners felt toward the policies of Reconstruction.
•Your task in the next few days is to determine why Reconstruction was so opposed in the South.
Questions
•What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
•Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
•Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
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(!) What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
ReplyDelete1) “And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn.”
2) “And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done.”
3) “But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’.”
(@) Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
The Yankee nation, Declaration of Independence, and the ‘glorious’ Union
(#) Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
1) Injured four parts of his body and starved at Point
2) Caught pneumonia while camping in the snow
3) Killed Yankee soldiers
1.
ReplyDelete-"I’m glad I fought agin’ her, I only wish we’d won"
-"But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’. "
-"And I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn."
2.
-The Yankee nation
-Declaration of Independence
-the ‘glorious’ Union
-Striped banner
3.
-"Got wounded in four places and I starved at Point Lookout."
-"I cotch [caught] the rheumatism a-campin’ in the snow,"
Mckenzie Caffey
1.
ReplyDelete"And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn."
-This phrase shows his attitude for the Yankee nation, just like it says, he doesn't care about them at all.
"And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done."
-This phrase shows his proud attitude, he doesn't regret anything he has done and wouldn't change a thing if he were to do it again.
"But I ain’t gonna love ‘em, now that is certain sure."
This phrase shows how even though they physically lost, he will never mentally be friends with them.
2.
1)Yankees
2)The Declaration of Independence
3)The Glorious Union
3.
"I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years nearabout,
Got wounded in four places and I starved at Point Lookout.
I cotch [caught] the rheumatism a-campin’ in the snow,
But I killed a chance of Yankees"
and
"We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us."
-Courtney Small
1. “I hates the Yankee nation, and everything they do;
ReplyDeleteI hates the Declaration of Independence, too.
I hates the glorious Union, ‘tis dripping with our blood;”
2. The Declaration of Independence, Yankees, Stripped Banner (Flag), and the glorious Union.
3. He got shot in 4 places, caught pneumonia, and he killed Yankee soldiers.
1. what are three words or phrases that show the attitude of the rebels?
ReplyDelete1.)i aint askin pardon for anything ive done
2.)and for this yankee nation i do not give a damn
3.)i hate the decloration of independence to
2. identify three things the song seems to dislike.
I hates the Yankee nation, and everything they do;
I hates the Declaration of Independence, too.
I hates the glorious Union, ‘tis dripping with our blood
3. identify things that seems significant to the writer
he got wounded in four places and was starved at lookout point
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Grant Pitts
Brinae' Wilkerson
ReplyDeleteWhat were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
~1.And I wish they were three million instead of what we got.
~2.And I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.
~3.I hates the Declaration of Independence
Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
~the union
~the declaration of independence
~the yankee nation
Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
~how they got sick laying out in the cold every night
~how they got wounded
~how robert E. lee was with them for 3 years.
"And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn."
ReplyDelete"I’m glad I fought agin’ her, I only wish we’d won,"
"And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done."
The three things that the narrator hated was the Yankee nation, the union, and the Declaration of independance.
The three events that seemed to be significant to the narrator was when he rode with Robert E. Lee for three years, starved at Point Lookout, and when he caught rheumatism while camping in the snow.
1. What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
ReplyDelete1a.) And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn.
1b.)And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done.
1c.)But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’.
2. Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
2a.) The Union
2b.) The Yankees
2c.) What the Declaration of Independence represented, and what it provided
3. Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
3a.) The time in which he was injured.
3b.) His time served under General Lee.
3c.) The time in which he was sick (with pneumonia).
3d.) The time in which he endured starvation.
•What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
ReplyDelete“And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done”
“But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’.”
“And I wish they were three million instead of what we got.”
•Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
“I hates the Declaration of Independence, too.”
“And I hates the striped banner – I fit [fought] it all I could.”
“hates the glorious Union”
•Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
“I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years nearabout,
Got wounded in four places and I starved at Point Lookout.
I cotch [caught] the rheumatism a-campin’ in the snow,”
I’m glad I fought agin’ her, I only wish we’d won, And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done.I hates the Declaration of Independence, too.
ReplyDeleteYankees, declaration of independence, the striped banner
Got wounded in four places and I starved at Point Lookout.
I cotch [caught] the rheumatism a-campin’ in the snow
•What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
ReplyDelete1) I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am.
2) I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done.
3) But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’.
•Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
1) Yankee Nation
2) Declaration of Inference
3) The Glorious Union
•Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years nearabout,
Got wounded in four places and I starved at Point Lookout.
I cotch [caught] the rheumatism a-campin’ in the snow,
1.But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’.
ReplyDelete2.I wish they were 3 million instead of what we got
3.Three thousand Yankees stiff in the dust
Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
1.Yankees
2.Having A Union
3.Declaration of Independence
Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
He was in the war with Robert E. Lee and caught rheumatism
1. I hates the Yankee nation, and everything they do
ReplyDelete2. I hates the Declaration of Independence, too.
3. And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn
1. Yankee Nation
2. Declaration of Independence
3. The Striped Banner
1. He shot four Yankee soldier, he's a rebel, he doesn't think he did anything wrong
1."I hates the Yankee nation, and everything they do"
ReplyDelete"And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done”
"And I w"n’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn"
2.The Yankee nation
the Reconstruction policies of the federal government
the Declaration of Independence
3.The narrator got wounded in four places and starved at Point Lookout.