![]() ![]() flag (and, consequently, to the country itself) moved Civil War veterans of the Union to demand legislative resolutions against the mayor of the former capital of the Confederacy. On the same year that he first assaulted a newsman, McCarthy also made the national news when he claimed he was only loyal to the flags of Virginia and the Confederate States. Photo: Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 17, 1906. In 1915, the former mayor punched another News-Leader reporter at city hall. ![]() McCarthy did this in front of the judge, which resulted in a $20 fine for contempt of court, as well as a spate of embarrassing national news reports. The author examines how Carlton McCarthy, mayor of Richmond, Va., from 1904-1908, used the role of the common Confederate soldier in the Civil War to reinforce the Lost Cause narrative in his book, Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, which, in turn, helped shape Civil War memory for many Southerners.Īs mayor of Richmond in 1908, while in police court on routine business, he spotted a reporter for the News-Leader-a paper that he believed had criticized him unfairly-and hailed verbal abuse upon the surprised victim. DHR - Virginia Department of Historic Resources > Archaeology Blogs > Cornerstone Contributions: Carlton McCarthy’s Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia Cornerstone Contributions: Carlton McCarthy’s Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia Photo: DHR. ![]()
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