Redefining Reconciliation: Confederate Veterans and the Southern Responses to Federal Civil War Pensions

Vogel, Jeffrey E.

doi:10.1353/cwh.2005.0019

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“…In fact, a good number of authors call into question the assumption that elements such as truth help reconciliation, and suggest ways in which it might even impede it (Brounéus, 2010;Clark, 2012;Mendeloff, 2004). Another group of authors points out the dangers of some forms of memory, which may lead to the counterproductive stirring up of negative emotions, thus pulling antagonists even farther apart (Clark, 2013;Neff, 2005;Rieff, 2011;Robben, 2012), not to mention the potential backlash in response to mechanisms of punitive justice (Vrbetic, 2013) or even attempts at reparation (Immler, 2012;Vogel, 2005). Going even further, Eastmond and Selimovic (2012) propose silence, rather than explicit interaction, as a legitimate form of reconciliation, while MacGinty (2014) defends the idea of escaping conflict in everyday life.…”

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Reconciliation: A comprehensive framework for empirical analysis

Rettberg

Ugarriza

2016

Security Dialogue

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There appears to be a rift between the theoretical and normative understandings of what reconciliation means and offers, and what people expect to happen in postconflict scenarios. Here we present a conceptual framework that captures the definitional diversity surrounding the concept of reconciliation and then operationalizes it in order to analyze responses from postconflict populations. The illustrative application of our framework to responses from a representative survey of 1,843 Colombian citizens reveals that people’s convictions are just as diverse as scholars’. Nevertheless, significant proportions of respondents seem to understand reconciliation to be primarily a psychological and political process which aims to achieve the re-establishment of quotidian or day-to-day relations and cooperation; which should be preceded by the cessation of violence, dialogue, goodwill, and attitudinal and emotional change; and which should be accompanied by social welfare and security. It is noteworthy that understandings of reconciliation as a process mediated by justice, truth, and memory are scarce. The application of this framework will help to reveal differences between hopes and promises, and inform scholarly work and policymaking that is more realistically rooted.

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Reconciliation: A comprehensive framework for empirical analysis

Rettberg

Ugarriza

2016

Security Dialogue

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“…While former Confederates were gradually restored to the federal pension roles in respect of conflicts other than the Civil War, it was not until 1958 that Congress approved federal military pensions for Confederate veterans specifically for the Civil War, by which time only two veterans and approximately 1000 widows benefited. 34 Similarly in Spain, pensions for the war wounded of the Civil War were reserved for Nationalists until after Franco's death; a 1976 decree extended pensions to disabled republicans, though not to their dependants. 35 Reserving pensions for the winners in the Irish Civil War was reinforced by the stipulation that applicants had to have served in the national army during the Civil War as well as in the pre-Truce IRA; this prerequisite excluded many pro-Treaty supporters, including Civil War neutrals and those who served the state in a civil rather than a military capacity during 1922-3.…”

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Military Service Pensions for Veterans of the Irish Revolution, 1916–1923

Coleman

2013

War in History

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In 1924 the Irish Free State government passed legislation to award pensions to veterans of the Irish revolution and Civil War. This article argues that the motivation for the pensions was the need to placate the national army after a failed mutiny in 1924 and that this explains their unusual nature in being based on service alone rather than disability. It will also explore the problems this created for defining service, examine the extension of eligibility to former republican enemies of the state and women revolutionaries in 1934, and describe the application and assessment procedure.

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“Great Injustice”: Social Status and the Distribution of Military Pensions after the Civil War

Johnson

2011

J. gilded age prog. era

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In recent years, historians have paid increased attention to the Civil War pension system created for Union army soldiers and their families. It has come to be seen as a milestone in the evolution of U.S. social policy. Despite the overall appearance of generosity and of unbiased treatment for applicants, however, individuals actually experienced the system very differently based on the social status of the soldier involved. Looking at pension legislation, its implementation, and nearly one thousand pension claim files, this article argues that three types of status discrimination appeared in the distribution of pensions: Pension laws paid larger amounts to officers and their families, the Pension Bureau used ability to perform manual labor to determine the level of disability regardless of the applicants' true ability to earn a living, and claims based on the service of officers generally were decided more quickly and more favorably than those of enlisted men. Because military ranks reflected the soldiers' civilian social position—most manual laborers served as enlisted men, for example—these biases meant that individuals of higher social status received significantly better treatment than those of lower civilian status.

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Redefining Reconciliation: Confederate Veterans and the Southern Responses to Federal Civil War Pensions

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Reconciliation: A comprehensive framework for empirical analysis

Reconciliation: A comprehensive framework for empirical analysis

Military Service Pensions for Veterans of the Irish Revolution, 1916–1923

“Great Injustice”: Social Status and the Distribution of Military Pensions after the Civil War

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