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Carroll Scogin-Brincefield Appearing August 17th, 2014 - 2:00pm |
Texans had a well-defined and consistent sense of right and wrong. Texas’ population in 1860 was 421,649. The Civil War records state between 70 to 90,000 Texas boys and men joined the ranks of the military ranging from 16 years to the mid 50’s that is roughly 16 to 21% of the men in Texas going to war. Sons, Husbands, brothers, uncles, cousins... these families were torn apart - some never returned, others returned but life was never the same for them. The loss of so many men had a devastating effect on the state, but more on the families they left behind in the shadows. The world as Texas women and children knew it was turned upside down. The war placed pressures on the women and children that their life prior to 1861 had not prepared them to handle. Texas did not have Gettysburg or a Vicksburg but we did give our men to those battlefields. The Texas cry was heard from the East coast to the Arizona desert. Families of these brave soldiers lived in the shadows in Texas, a state once seemed by many as a safe refuge. Their stories need to be told. The Civil War is the most written and researched topic in today’s study of history, and the stories of the silent victims - the women and children, need to come out of the shadows and into our lives as students of the Civil War and as Texans. |
Carroll Scogin-Brincefield was raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her family came to Texas in the early 1800’s settling in DeWitt and Lavaca County. As an adult, Ms. Brincefield traveled extensively throughout America and the world, making her home in Greece for three years. She can trace her family history back to one of the first settlers of Jamestown and on to the first settlers of Texas. She received her Bachelor of Science in History and Anthropology and her Masters of Art in History with an emphasis on Military History at Central Missouri State University. She has continued her studies at Texas State University taking as a second discipline of Geography/GIS. She lectures throughout Texas on numerous historical topics. She is currently involved in workshops documenting the military history of the veterans in Texas. Ms. Brincefield is the coordinator of the RIP program for the county of Lavaca, where she assists working on cemetery restoration projects for Burleson, Lavaca and DeWitt Counties. She develops educational programs and curriculum for local historical commissions and for the Texas State Historical Commission on local histories for public schools. She also writes book reviews for many historical/academic journals such as The Journal of South Texas. Her published works includes a wide range of topics from Native American history and culture; to Women and Children of the Civil War. Her most recent publications and research have brought her into the 20th century with studies focusing on the military, labor and politics. Her research and knowledge on Internment & P.O.W Camps in Texas has received national notoriety with interviews on Weekend America (a public radio-broadcasting network) based out of California and Fox News out of San Antonio. Her publications that are in process are “Children of Texas; Home Front during the Civil War in Texas”, “The History of DeWitt County. Mapping a Ghost Town.”, “Skeletons of the Home Front World War II: German Internment Camps in Texas.”, “Un-American Activities on the Texas Gulf Coast; 1930’s.”, “African American Women in South Texas 1910-1945,” Doc: the Company Aide Korean War Medics and “The WPA in Texas, New Deal Programs in the Grand State of Texas.”, “Pictorial History of Crystal City through the Eyes of the Camera”, “Riding the Rails; Pictorial History of Burleson County”. Ms. Brincefield was a contributing author of the book Still the Arena of the Civil War Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas 1865-1874. She was an adjunct professor with Central Missouri State University and Kansas City Community Colleges before moving back to her home state of Texas, where she was an adjunct instructor for Blinn Community College and director of the Lavaca Historical Museum. She is an active member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Daughters of the American Revolution, Texas Czech Genealogical Society, Lavaca County Historical Commission, Burleson County Historical Commission, Somerville Historical Association, Burleson Historical Association, Texas State Historical Commission, Texas State Archeology Association, Chisholm Trail Heritage Museum, East Texas Historical Association, South Texas Historical Association, Texas State Historical Association and Texas Oral History Association, The American Anthropological Association and Who’s Who in America. |
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