Francis Asbury Shoup

The fourth former Confederate to be honored in 1878, Shoup migrated from Indiana to the South at the outbreak of the Civil War, during which he served as a staff officer. As the Confederacy’s forces crumbled, Shoup put forth the idea of arming enslaved people to fight for the South. His idea came too late to be implemented. After the war, Shoup taught mathematics at Sewanee.⁷

Shoup wrote an opinion piece on "Uncle Tom's Cabin Forty Years After," in which he blamed Harriet Beecher Stowe for the carnage of the Civil War:

"Bleeding hearts!--has Mrs. Stowe ever tried to think what her book has been a chief factor of bringing upon the world? Has she ever tried to weigh the occasional and rare horrors of the old slave days, hard as they were, against the agonies of the million of brave men mutillated [sic] and done to death in the ranks of the blue and gray? Has she ever reflected upon the ten--the twenty millions of wives and mothers, sweethearts and daughters, whose hearts have been torn up by the roots at the wild slaughter between brothers? Truly the indulgence of sentiment is costly. With the whites in the South the gain is beyond reckoning. It is they who have been freed, and the glory and power which has come, and is coming to them by their relief from the burden of slavery."

-Francis Asbury Shoup, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin Forty Years After"

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