{"id":1035,"date":"2010-12-10T19:14:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T00:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:06:07","slug":"1863-william-calvin-oates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2010\/12\/10\/1863-william-calvin-oates\/","title":{"rendered":"1904 (Arguing for Justice) William C. Oates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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William Calvin Oates (House Divided)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nImportant primary sources include Oates’ perspective on the Civil War in “Gettysburg: The Battle on the Right,”\u00a0Southern Historical Society Papers<\/em> 6 (1878) and The War Between the Union and the Confederacy<\/em> (1905).\u00a0Oates also published articles on a variety of other topics, such as\u00a0“The Homestead Strike, A Congressional View,” North American Review<\/em> 155 (1892) and “Industrial Development of the South,” North American Review <\/em>161 (1895). In addition, the Gettysburg National Military Park has the letters in which Union Col. Joshua Chamberlain and Oates discussed whether a monument for the Fifteenth Alabama should be built on Little Round Top. As for Oates’ “private papers,” his profile on American National Biography<\/em> notes that a descendant owns them. Key secondary sources include Glenn LaFantasie, ed., Gettysburg: Colonel William C. Oates and Lieutenant Frank A. Haskell<\/em> (1992) and Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates<\/a><\/em> (2006). You can also read LaFantasie’s article “The Inimitable William C. Oates<\/a>” online at Gettysburg National Military Park’s website. Also see Mark Perry’s\u00a0Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War<\/em> (1997). As for information on the Fifteenth\u00a0Alabama, see the Alabama Department of Archives & History’s Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Places to Visit <\/strong>
\nYou can visit Little Round Top at the Gettysburg National Military Park<\/a>. While in Gettysburg you can also tour the David Wills’ house<\/a> and see the bedroom where Lincoln stayed the night before he delivered the Gettysburg Address in November 1863.<\/p>\n

Artifacts<\/strong>
\nThe 15th Alabama Infantry flag<\/a> is in the Alabama Civil War Period Flag Collection at the Alabama Department of Archives & History. In addition, the Gettysburg National Military Park has a number of artifacts<\/a> related to the battle, including this haversack<\/a> and a Confederate enlisted man’s uniform<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nSeveral images are on Oates’ House Divided profile<\/a>. In addition, the Alabama Department of Archives and History posted several photographs of Oates on his\u00a0profile<\/a> at the Encyclopedia of Alabama.<\/p>\n

The slideshow below includes images related to the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Sources Important primary sources include Oates’ perspective on the Civil War in “Gettysburg: The Battle on the Right,”\u00a0Southern Historical Society Papers 6 (1878) and The War Between the Union and the Confederacy (1905).\u00a0Oates also published articles on a variety of other topics, such as\u00a0“The Homestead Strike, A Congressional View,” North American Review 155 (1892) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8648,3975],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arguing-for-justice","category-memory-meaning-1865-2015","tag-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}