Your class was introduced to the Reconstruction of the South on Tues., 1/5. 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=CkZvNadzlik
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, and which side was more to blame for the ultimate failings of Reconstruction, the North or 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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1. What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
"I do not give a damn"
"I hates the Yankee nation"
"I won’t be reconstructed"
2. Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
Yankees
Reconstruction
Losing the war
3. Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
Riding with Robert E. Lee
Life in the war
Losing
Not shootin' mo' Yankees
1. "I'm glad I fought against her" "I only wish we won" "And I hates the striped banner"
2. The Union, The Declaration of Independence, and the striped banner.
3. Point Lookout, catching rheumatism, yankees dying of southern fever, and not being able to take up their musket.
1. What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn.
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.
These phrases showed that the Rebels hated the Yankees, and that they wouldn’t accept them as their countrymen.
2. Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
The song dislikes the Declaration of Independence, the Union, and the idea of reconstruction.
3. Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
Being taken to Point Lookout and losing the war was significant to the narrator.
1.
• "And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn."
•"I hates the Yankee nation, and everything they do;"
•"I’m glad I fought agin’ her, I only wish we’d won"
2.
• Yankee Nation
• Declaration of Independence
• The striped banner (flag)
3.
• Riding with Robert E. Lee
• Getting wounded in four places
• And the losing of the war
1. "And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn"
"I hates the glorious Union"
"But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I'd like to kill
some mo"
2. Yankee Nation
Not being able to kill more Yankees
Reconstruction
3. Killing Yankees, Reconstruction, Losing the War,
Riding with Robert E. Lee
1. What were the three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in "The Good Old Rebel"?
•"And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn."
•"I hates the glorious Union"
•"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.
• The Yankees
•The Declaration of Independence
•Reconstruction
3.Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song's narrator.
•Killing Yankees
•Point Lookout
•Riding with Robert E. Lee
•Reconstruction
•Loosing the War
1.
"And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn."
"I hates the Yankee nation, and everything they do"
"But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’. "
2.
Yankees
Union
Striped banner
3.
Not Shooting more yankees
Losing the War
Riding with Robert E. Lee
1.What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
-I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done.
-I hates the Declaration of Independence
-And I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn
2.Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
-Union
-Declaration of Independence
-Reconstruction
3.Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
-riding with robert e. lee
-killing yankees
-loosing the war
-reconstruction
What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
"And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn."
"But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’"
"And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done."
•Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
Reconstruction
Yankees
Declaration of Independence
•Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator
"I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years nearabout"
Losing the war
"killed a chance of yankees"
Point Lookout
1) What were three words of phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in "The Good Old Rebel?"
**"And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn."
**"But I killed a chance of Yankees, and I’d like to kill some mo’"
**"And I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I’ve done."
2) Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
** The striped banner
** The Declaration of Independence
** The Yankee Nation
3) Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song's narrator.
** "I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years nearabout"
** "I starved at Point Lookout"
** "a-campin' in the snow"
•What were three words or phrases that showed the attitude of the rebels in “The Good Old Rebel?”
“And for this Yankee nation I do not give a damn”
“And I hates the striped banner – I fought it all I could.”
“And I won’t be reconstructed”
•Identify three items that the song seems to dislike.
The Yankee nation, the Declaration of Independence, and the American flag.
•Identify any events that seem to be significant to the song’s narrator.
Riding with Robert E. Lee, starving at Point Looking, getting wounded, and catching a rheumatism.
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