The Lost Colony of the Confederacy Paperback Eugene C. Harter 4th Print 1993

Description: Preface One of the most imposing and least-known monuments in the United States is located in Todd County, Kentucky, at the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. It is a massive obelisk, 350 feet high, a somewhat smaller version of the Washington monument in the District of Columbia. When I visited the site in 1962, few others were visiting it, and the memorial was beginning to crumble. The elevator to the top was out of commission; there were cracks in the concrete; dust was everywhere. Five thousand miles away, in southern Brazil, there exists another Confederate monument, much like the one in Ken-tucky, though smaller. This obelisk, its sides well scrubbed, stands among the graves of Confederate voluntary exiles, their relatives, and descendants. This book is about the grim, quixotic journey of twenty thousand or so Confederates to Brazil at the end of the American Civil War. In that faraway country, the Confederados, as they were known to the Brazilians, found a way to continue their way of life, free of contact with the military conqueror. It was a solution to the dilemma of living in a changed South, where defeat and invasion by the Yankees threatened that tender essence of community and customs that defined the south-erner. In Brazil southerners could survive with honor. The cultural province they established still exists, testifying to the hardiness of American ways. Perhaps one of the best ways to get a good view of their descendants is to attend one Despite the vast number of books about the Civil War, this is the first to focus upon the immigration of southerners to Brazil after the war. The author is the grandson/great-grandson of Confederates who left Texas and Mississippi as a part of the great Confederate migration in the 1860s. Although it is not known exactly how many immigrated to South America - estimates range from 8,000 to 40,000 - their departure was fueled by bitterness over a lost cause and a distaste for an oppressive victor. Encouraged by Emperor Dom Pedro, most of these exiles settled in Brazil. Eugene Harter tells of the lives of these last Confederates who founded a city called American and were called Os Confederados by the Brazilians, for they retained much of their southernness and lent an Americana flavor to Brazilian culture. This book, first published in 1985, is a personal story which is set against the background of the exodus and describes the daily life among the twentieth-century descendants who have a strong link both to southern history and to modern Brazil. UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

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