Background
Mr. Carmichael was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, on February 23, 1966. He was a son of Lowell G. (a utility company worker) and Charlotte (a teacher) Carmichael.
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The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
(Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on t...)
Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on the eve of the Civil War as intellectually lazy, violent, and dissipated, Peter S. Carmichael looks closely at the lives of more than one hundred young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. He finds them deeply engaged in the political, economic, and cultural forces of their time. Age, he concludes, created special concerns for young men who spent their formative years in the 1850s. Before the Civil War, these young men thought long and hard about Virginia's place as a progressive slave society. They vigorously lobbied for disunion despite opposition from their elders, then served as officers in the Army of Northern Virginia as frontline negotiators with the nonslaveholding rank and file. After the war, however, they quickly shed their Confederate radicalism to pursue the political goals of home rule and New South economic development and reconciliation. Not until the turn of the century, when these men were nearing the ends of their lives, did the mythmaking and storytelling begin, and members of the last generation recast themselves once more as unreconstructed Rebels. By examining the lives of members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds new light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity during the turbulent last half of the nineteenth century.
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At the Right Hand of Longstreet: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer
(As a young man in Georgia, G. Moxley Sorrel enlisted in a...)
As a young man in Georgia, G. Moxley Sorrel enlisted in a cavalry unit even before the Civil War erupted, so eager was he to serve his home state. During the war, as an aide-de-camp on Brigadier General James Longstreet’s staff he fought in many battles, including those at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. He was at Longstreet’s side when Longstreet was struck down in 1864. Sorrel’s “rough jottings from memory” provide vivid and detailed descriptions of many of the war’s chief participants and events. His military career was cut short when he was shot in the lungs at Hatcher’s Run. Although he survived, the war ended before he could return to duty. In his declining years he wrote, “For my part, when the time comes to cross the river like the others, I shall be found asking at the gates above, ‘Where is the Army of Northern Virginia? For there I make my camp.’” As a young man in Georgia, G. Moxley Sorrel enlisted in a cavalry unit even before the Civil War erupted, so eager was he to serve his home state. During the war, as an aide-de-camp on Brigadier General James Longstreet’s staff he fought in many battles, including those at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. He was at Longstreet’s side when Longstreet was struck down in 1864. Sorrel’s “rough jottings from memory” provide vivid and detailed descriptions of many of the war’s chief participants and events. His military career was cut short when he was shot in the lungs at Hatcher’s Run. Although he survived, the war ended before he could return to duty. In his declining years he wrote, “For my part, when the time comes to cross the river like the others, I shall be found asking at the gates above, ‘Where is the Army of Northern Virginia? For there I make my camp.’”
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"Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail": Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee: An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue eBook: Peter S. Carmichael: Books
(Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail" Political Corr...)
Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail" Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee by Peter S. Carmichael Why do we argue—and argue—so much about Robert E. Lee? "While northerners might appear comparatively apathetic about the memory of the Union cause, white southerners have been tenacious in searching for moral clarity in the past."
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- Lee's Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram (A Nation Divided) (This biography of artillerist Pegram, who participated in...)
- The Realist Tradition and Contemporary International Relations: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy Series) (Despite the literary outpouring on the life of Robert E. ...)
- The Purcell, Crenshaw & Letcher Artillery (The Virginia Regimental Histories)
Peter S. Carmichael
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Peter Carmichael graduated from Indiana University-Purdue University with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988. He obtained Master of Arts degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1992 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1996.
Career
Mr. Carmichael worked as an adjunct professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. He also was a seasonal historian at Richmond National Military Park. Mr. Carmichael becama a founder of Friends of Richmond Battlefields.
Peter Carmichael was a contributor to books and contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Civil War, Civil War History, Journal of American History, and Civil War Times Illustrated.
Peter S. Carmichael also serves on the Board of Directors and the Historians' Council of the Gettysburg Foundation, the non-profit partner of Gettysburg National Military Park. He was recently reappointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians for 2017-2018.
He is co-editor of the Civil War America series from the University of North Carolina Press.
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Lee's Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram (A Nation Divided)
(This biography of artillerist Pegram, who participated in...)
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The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
(Challenging the popular conception of Southern youth on t...)
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"Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail": Political Correctness, Neo-Confederates, and Robert E. Lee: An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue eBook: Peter S. Carmichael: Books
(Truth is mighty & will eventually prevail" Political Corr...)
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The Realist Tradition and Contemporary International Relations: The Generalship of Robert E. Lee (Political Traditions in Foreign Policy Series)
(Despite the literary outpouring on the life of Robert E. ...)
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At the Right Hand of Longstreet: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer
(As a young man in Georgia, G. Moxley Sorrel enlisted in a...)
- The Purcell, Crenshaw & Letcher Artillery (The Virginia Regimental Histories)
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Lee's Young Artillerist: William R.J. Pegram (A Nation Divided)
Connections
Mr. Carmichael married on May 29, 1993. His wife’s name is Tara M.
References
- Gettysburg College - Peter S. Carmichael
- Peter S. Carmichael: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle Books Visit Amazon.com's Peter S. Carmichael Page and shop for all Peter S. Carmichael books. Check out pictures, bibliography, and biography of Peter S. Carmichael
- Peter S. Carmichael | C-SPAN.org Watch the C-SPAN collection of videos, access clips including recent appearances by Peter S. Carmichael. View positions held along with a brief bio.
- Peter S. Carmichael | Civil War Trust Peter Carmichael is the Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
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1988
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1992
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1996