In the case of former and middle period of Chungnam righteous army, it had some same points in characteristics of royalism and Wijong Ch’oksaron(Theory of defending orthodoxy and rejecting heterodoxy) based rejection to heterodoxy. Also there were o...
In the case of former and middle period of Chungnam righteous army, it had some same points in characteristics of royalism and Wijong Ch’oksaron(Theory of defending orthodoxy and rejecting heterodoxy) based rejection to heterodoxy. Also there were other similar points in members and battle aspects. For example, this period of righteous army acted in the range of Hongju cultural area including Hongju and at the same time members were organized by Namdang School.
However, the latter period of Chungnam righteous army showed the popular characteristic. First of all, most of leaders of the righteous army were commoners. The reason of it is that former Confucian scholar leaders who commanded large troops hid or were taken in custody because of suppression of Japanese Empire. Emerging of commoner commanders naturally made the characteristics of righteous army more popular. Moreover, latter period of Chungnam righteous army was different from former and middle part of it because they concentrated in gathering sinews of war and punishing pro-Japanese force. The size of the army was different too. The latter period of Chungnam righteous army was emerged intensively from july 1907 to summer of 1908, but declined after 1909 by suppression of Japanese army. Therefore, the latter period of Chungnam righteous army could be said as declining period or transitional period to the righteous army for national independence rather than plateau period different from other area.
Chungnam righteous army constantly struggled through whole period. After the fall of Choson Dynasty, they actively participated in independence Movement group such as The Dongnipeuigunbu(獨立義軍府) and The Kwangbokhae (Korean Liberation Association, 光復會) domestically, and they also participated in military school or other armed corps in Manchuria internationally. In other words, national independence movement of Chungnam righteous army could be rated high.