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■he Confederate defeat in the
Can fjvil War resulted from a culture of
antllence and aggression that domi-
' 'njitecl the South during that period,
laid a specialist on Southern liistory
mil:Wednesday night.
if Hr he Confederate’s bled them-
ielvesto death in the first three years
rf the Civil War by attacking,” said
Or. Grady McWhiney, a Lyndon
wnes Johnson Professor of Ameri-
! „ ;an History at Texas Christian Uni-
, jifsity and the author of “Attack
Civil War
mtorian soys violence dominoted South
ty at
" jnd I)ie: Civil War Military Tactics
jnd the Southern Heritage/’.
ive; McWhiney spoke during the sec-
on )nd annual Military Studies Lecture
ih iponsored by the Military Studies
c vKtitute at Texas A&M.
iSitlj McWhiney explained his theory
‘d rfthe Confederate defeat,
dtrfi'he culture of the South made
Tyler mon to
lead Boptist
convention
n )le impatient, McWhiney said.
'hey didn’t like waiting,” he
added.
McWhiney said the Confederates
didn’t have the manpower to sustain
their losses during the first three
years, and this led to their defeat.
The loss of 30,000 men at Cettys-
burg and the surrender of another
30,000 men at Vicksburg in the fall
of 1863 forced the Confederate
army to remain on the defensive,
McWhiney said. By that time, Gen.
Robert E. Lee had lost 120,000 men
and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant merely
had to light a war of attrition.
“Confederate morale went down
steadily after that period,” McWhi
ney said.
McWhiney said the Southern cul
ture can be traced back to their Cel
tic ancestry. He supported this the
ory with evidence from James
Vhiney compared the aggres-
>s of the Confederate army to
Michael Hill’s, “Celtic Warfare:
1503-176.3.”
McWhiney
siveness of the Confederate army
_ the aggressiveness and barbarism of
the (/elts during the 17th and 18th
centuries.
McWhiney said he wrote his book
because he was interested in the be
havior of Southerners. He said his
interests in the history of the South
are because he is a Southerner.
Hubert Van Tuyll, acting interim
director of the Military Studies Insti
tute, said McWhiney was chosen for
the lecture because he is a distin
guished historian of the South.
The Military Studies Institute,
formed early in 1984 under a char
ter by the Texas A&M Board of Re
gents, concentrates on contempo
rary defense issues and on military
history, especially that of Texas and
the Southwest.
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Associated Press
mki SAN ANTONIO — Paul Pow-
roi ell, a fundamentalist Tyler min-
iiit jister described as “a moderate
without a liberal drop of blood in
his body and a fundamentalist
'■ without a Messiah complex,” was
e ! i: elected Tuesday as president of
a the 2.3 million-member Baptist
lts |C>eneral Convention of Texas.
I0 *B Powell, pastor of the 6,300-
laember church in Tyler since
ie it iT972 and on the board of trustees
v n i at Baylor University, said he be-
y 0 K Keves scripture “is inspired, it is
j n » infallible, it is inerrant.
ir [,: “A lot of people get hung up
»on words — playing silly word
games,” he said of a controversy
m the Southern Baptist Conven-
I tion over biblical inerrantcy.
11 The dispute, which has divided
the nation’s largest Protestant
drti congregation for years, “has cre-
| ateu a lot of suspicion so that we
have a tendency to label one an
other,” Powell said. “People won
der whose side are they on? We
ought to all be on the Lord’s
I side.”
hoiis
Worker error may be cause
of refinery explosion, fire
Associated Press
MONT BELVIEU — Two work
ers may have been killed in fiery ex
plosions at an underground gas stor
age vault because they cut the wrong
pipe or failed to drain the line, offi
cials said Wednesday.
James Hof f mann, 30, of Cove and
Richard Duncan, 25, of Baytown
were doing maintenance work Tues
day on a 3-foot underground pipe
line at the Warren Petroleum Co. re
finery and storage plant, according
to Cul Ingram, spokesman for Chev
ron Inc. Chevron owns the 300-acre
complex which is about 30 miles east
of Houston.
The pipeline ruptured, spewing
ethane, propane, isobutane and gas
oline and triggering a series of ex
plosions and tires that took firefight
ers almost six hours to control,
Ingram said.
^'The pipeline that was being
worked on apparently had some
material in it, and whether this was
human error, whether the pipeline
was inadvertently cut is something
we’re still investigating,” he said.
Mont Belvieu Mayor Fred Miller
ordered the evacuation of the entire
town of L20Q., fearing the fire would
spread through a network of gas
lines beneath trie city.
Miller lifted the order Tuesday
night for all but about 300 residents
living in the area surrounding the
plant.
Although company officials say
the area is safe, tne mayor said the
remaining 300 residents probably
would not be allowed to return
home.
“The plant officials are trying to
find out what caused this, and it
would just be easier to keep every
body away from there until they’re
finished,” Miller said.
But after touring the plant with
Chevron officials Wednesday, the
mayor said the remaining evacuees
would be allowed to return.
“Everybody can go home that
w'ants to,” Miller said.
Small flares were used Wednes
day to burn off hydrocarbons left in
pipelines and prevent further explo
sions.
Ingram said damages from the
fires and explosions will run “into
the millions.’ He said about 10 per
cent of the plant will be closed for
several weeks.
“An investigation will go on for a
week, at least,” he said. “This is a
substantial fire and a lot of damage.
It will take time.”
Explosions are nothing new for
this community, perched atop one of
the world’s largest salt domes used
ist 35 companies to store hy-
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