Looks pretty cool. What kind of computer are you running this on? Render time?
Comment by Georgy_K_Zhukov
Works Cited
^1 Daniel Webster by Gerry Hazelton
^2 America's Constitution: A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar
^3 Themes of the American Civil War: The War Between the States edited by Susan-Mary Grant and Brian Holden Reid - A really fantastic resource, bringing together a number of essays that look at various issues surrounding the American Civil War, three of which I draw upon here:
^a The State of the Union, 1776–1860 by Donald Ratcliffe
^b Southern Secession in 1860–1861 by Bruce Collins
^c Davis and the Confederacy by Martin Crawford
^4 The Nullification Crisis and Republican Subversion by Richard B. Latner
^5 Another Nullification Crisis: Vermont's 1850 Habeas Corpus Law by Horace K. Houston Jr.
^6 Civil War and Reconstruction: An Eyewitness History by Joe H. Kirchberger
^7 Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson McPherson's book is generally agreed upon these days as being the best intro-level, single tome introduction to the American Civil War. It shouldn't be missed.
^8 Why The War Was Not About Slavery by Donald W. Livingston Livingston is a Neo-Confederate Apologist who writes defences of the Confederacy's right to seceede, and seeks to diminish the role of slavery, wishing, as he himself admits, to erase the past fifty years of scholarship on the war. The Abbeville Institute that he founded (and has since left) is decried by the SPLC labels them a hate group for its undercurrents of white supremacy and secession.
^9 William Mahone, the Lost Cause, and Civil War History by Kevin H. Levin
^10 Anatomy of a Myth by Alan T. Nolan One of a number of essays from a larger collection that break down the Lost Cause myth, Nolan's piece is an excellent introduction/summary of the erroneous claims made.
^11 The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote Foote is, simply put, a master of words, and his prose is unrivaled in quality when it comes to Civil War writing. His historical acumen... not so much. The trilogy suffers from being fifty years out of date, a fact compounded by being in a field where the revolution in understanding happened within that period. Nevertheless, it provides wonderful descriptions of many aspects of the war, and while not the best source on certain controversial aspects of the war, shouldn't be missed out on.
^12 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
^13 In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 by Leslie M. Harris
^14 A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman Active intervention may be overhyped, but the overall role that the United Kingdom played is still a significant one, and shouldn't be downplayed. While openly arming the Confederacy was illegal, British citizens provided vital lifelines to the rebel cause by circumventing those restrictions.
^15 British Historical Statistics by B. R. Mitchell Seriously indebted to /u/agentdcf for making the raw numbers on this available to me.
^16 "Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers" This specific controversy is only cited to be illustrative, having been a particularly high profile one, but the claims of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers is a not uncommon one from the uninformed, and at best can be called a conflation with enslaved servants and laborers, of which there were indeed a great many.
^17 Black Confederates by Corydon Ireland
^18 Black Confederates, Encyclopedia Virginia
^20 Freedom by the Sword U.S. Colored Troops 1862-1867 by William Dobak
Notes and Afterthoughts: Needless to say, this is an incredibly deep topic, the Civil War generally being one of the most written about events in history, period. I've done my best to cover this specific aspect adequately, but I'm sure that the internal clarity of my thought process doesn't always translate to a crystal clear conveyance of it to you, the reader. I quite literally hit the limit 40,000 characters exactly (22 pages double-spaced, and just over 7,000 words if you care), and in all honesty, could have written twice as much without adding any new topic. Just about every paragraph here could easily take up an entire book of its own - and in many cases do - and I'm happy to expand on any aspect which remains less than clear, or which you simply want to hear more about.



gamedevVoxels in UnityAug 04, 2016 at 12:40 PM