{"id":3268,"date":"2014-11-18T19:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nashcc.edu\/news\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2014-12-10T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T20:28:57","slug":"dr-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2014\/11\/dr-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson to Present &#8220;Women\u2019s Attitudes towards Secession and the Civil War&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1131\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashcc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MaryWayneWatson_02.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1131\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nashcc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MaryWayneWatson_02.jpg\" alt=\"MaryWayneWatson_02\" width=\"141\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Mary Wayne Watson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Mary Wayne Watson, retired Nash Community College Professor and Road Scholar with the NC Humanities Council, will present a program on Sandhills women\u2019s perspectives of the American Civil War. The event, co-sponsored by the Wendell Historical Society, is set for 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 20, 2014, at Wendell Town Hall, Court Room, 15 E. Fourth Street, Wendell, NC. Watson\u2019s presentation is titled \u201cWomen\u2019s Attitudes towards Secession and the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Research on the work of her great uncle, North Carolina Poet Laureate John Charles McNeill, as well as her cousin, Gerald White Johnson, noted historian and journalist, both from Scotland County, motivated Watson to look further into her family\u2019s history. In so doing she discovered a series of letters written during the Civil War by her great-grandmother in Scotland County to a family in Moore County.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The program presents a fascinating look at women\u2019s views during the beginning, middle, and end of the Civil War period in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An initially uplifting, idealistic support of the Union as a great experiment in democracy and self-rule ultimately fades into prayers for return of the surviving men as well as hopes for peace, followed by ultimate acceptance of the bitter realities of war on a land and a people crushed in the aftermath. Poignant descriptions of the impact of Sherman\u2019s \u201cscorched earth policy\u201d on a once proud and surprisingly literary Sandhills community remind us once again that war is hell&#8211;even when it is brother against sister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watson received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and her Master\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has taught at middle schools, high schools, community colleges, and universities in North Carolina and Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mary Wayne Watson, retired Nash Community College Professor and Road Scholar with the NC Humanities Council, will present a program on Sandhills women\u2019s perspectives of the American Civil War&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2014\/11\/dr-watson\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}