I hesitate to make a global comment about the assistant marshals but I've done
extensive transcriptions from the Valley and SW Virginia 1870 census and it
seems to me that all of them are not only residents but come from amongst the
most prominent residents.
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The census taker for Madison County was W[illiam] D Fry. His family had lived in
the area since 1720s. I don't think you could classify him as a Yankee.
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On 10/26/2010 12:53 PM, Hannah Powell wrote:
> I would say it's a matter of attitude. Virginia was not as devastated as some
>other states. Military rule did not end until 1872 in Alabama for instance.
>But the southern mind never forgot the yankees. Military rule in other states
>was not pleasant and a yankee census taker was not welcome .. simply tolerated.
>... and that IS a fact. Did the Confederate Virginians have a different view of
>the world? Virginia in view of her population mix of Yankee and Confederate
>might have been more subdued at the end of the war. Regarding the 1870 Census
>taker ... was a yankee plain and simple.
> Hannah Powell
> Hannah Powell
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tarter, Brent (LVA)"
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> Precision is important when characterizing things, especially things
> that the Feds did during the decades before and after the Civil War.
>
> In the first place, Virginia was not under military rule when the census
> of 1870 was taken. Congressional, or as it is sometimes called military,
> reconstruction ended in Virginia in January 1870.
>
> In the second place, federal government employees always conducted the
> census, so what, if anything, does it matter whether a former
> Confederate state still had military rule when the census of 1870 was
> taken?
>
> Brent Tarter
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