“The
tunnel Federal soldiers dug on Cheatham Hill is still visible,” opened
political theorist Bryan W. Brickner, “and war in general continues its
flanking movement.”
The Bryan William Brickner Blog is hosting the Ew Publishing summer series, War Cry
Heal Union (WCHU). Brickner is the author of several political theory books, to
include Article the First of the Bill of Rights (2006) and The Book of the Is
(2013). The summer series honors the known and unknown sacrifices of
citizenship; today is the 150th anniversary of Cheatham Hill and the
27 June 1864 Civil War battle at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
“Cheatham
Hill and the US Civil War,” Brickner noted, “are known for their human carnage;
today let’s ponder this question: Why were citizens from Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio assaulting Tennesseans on a Georgia hilltop on 27 June 1864? Or, what part
of our Constitution failed: Madison’s theory of representing We the People
according to our numbers or the lack thereof?”
In Angles: 1864 Civil War Unrepresented and Cheatham Hill, new on the Bryan William
Brickner Blog, the unrepresented citizen-soldiers on both sides of the lines
are discussed using the term The Unrepresented. In particular, the essay
highlights the Illinois Monument on Cheatham Hill and its dedication a century
ago today.
“The
day after the monument dedication, 28 June 1914,” Brickner continued, “the heir
to the Austrian throne is assassinated by an unrepresented subject of the
empire; this singular event, seemingly a world away from Marietta and Cheatham
Hill, would lead the European Empires into World War I ~ a war that would soon
touch Georgia and all the other states in the Union.”
“Perhaps
stated in terms of We the People of Europe,” closed Brickner, “World War I,
like our Civil War, was caused by a failure to represent, that is account for,
The Unrepresented.”
Brickner
has a 1997 political science doctorate from Purdue University and is the author
of several political theory books, to include The Promise Keepers (1999), Article
the first of the Bill of Rights (2006), and The Book of the Is (2013). The
Bryan William Brickner blog is a collection of published works and press
coverage and an ongoing resource for the political science of constitutions and
the biological science of receptors.
The
War Cry Heal Union series continues tomorrow (28 June) with the 100th
anniversary of the beginning of World War I ~ Empires Crumble and Others Build.
