Talk:James L. Kemper

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[edit] Racial bias?

should this man's massively racist bias be emphasised here? he campaigned for the gov. of virg. with the slogan "we must make the issue white and black, race against race, and the canvas red hot" whilst endorsing policies of intimidation, terror and violence.

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While Kemper most assuredly harbored racial prejudices, there is reason to believe that he was more progressive than his Conservative Pary contemporaries. Edgar E Noel's 1959 definitive work on the 1873 Virginia elections--one that paints Kemper as stridently racist--has been called into question by at least one scholar (James L. Kemper and the Virginia Redeemers Face the Race Question: A Reconsideration. Robert R. Jones, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Aug., 1972), pp. 393-414). Jones' portrait of Kemper is more complex, showing Kemper to most assuredly prejudiced against blacks, but also (privately) amenable to the idea of more thorough integration of blacks into white politics (the quote referenced above, was actually not my Kemper but by Conservative Party chairman, Nathanael B. Meade).--RabidMortal 00:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stylistic Question

The section summarizing Kemper's Civil War career contains this phrase, "Kemper rose on his spurs to urge his men forward." How does one rise on one's spurs? The mental image of this feat eludes me. Perhaps this should be rephrased as "Kemper rose in his stirrups." 65.6.138.68 18:17, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

It was not a matter of style, it was an error in equestrian nomenclature. Thank you for catching it. Hal Jespersen 22:03, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MILHIST Assessment

I have assessed this as start class because it fails both reference and completeness criteria. first, the page needs more in-text citations. Secondly, it also lacks sufficient information about his early life, which may very well be hard to find, his career as a politician before the war, and as governor after the war, which shouldn't be that hard to find. It would be nice if some more information could be added about his command and actions during the war, probably creating individual sub-sections for the major skirmishes. Sniperz11_{C ^@ S} 10:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)