Confederate Charleston
Author: Robert N. Rosen
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 087249991X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cradle of Secession's illustrious Civil War experience.
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Civil War Canon
Author: Thomas J. Brown
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2015-02-17
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1469620960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J. Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent sites such as Fort Sumter, Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery, and the South Carolina statehouse, Brown reveals a dynamic pattern of contestation and change. He highlights transformations of gender norms and establishes a fresh perspective on race in Civil War remembrance by emphasizing the fluidity of racial identity within the politics of white supremacy. Despite the conservative ideology that connects these sites, Brown argues that the Confederate canon of memory has adapted to address varied challenges of modernity from the war's end to the present, when enthusiasts turn to fantasy to renew a faded myth while children of the civil rights era look for a usable Confederate past. In surveying a rich, controversial, and sometimes even comical cultural landscape, Brown illuminates the workings of collective memory sustained by engagement with the particularity of place.
Never Surrender
Author: W. Scott Poole
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780820325071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNear Appomattox, during a cease-fire in the final hours of the Civil War, Confederate general Martin R. Gary harangued his troops to stand fast and not lay down their arms. Stinging the soldiers' home-state pride, Gary reminded them that "South Carolinians never surrender." By focusing on a reactionary hotbed within a notably conservative state--South Carolina's hilly western "upcountry"--W. Scott Poole chronicles the rise of a post-Civil War southern culture of defiance whose vestiges are still among us. The society of the rustic antebellum upcountry, Poole writes, clung to a set of values that emphasized white supremacy, economic independence, masculine honor, evangelical religion, and a rejection of modernity. In response to the Civil War and its aftermath, this amorphous tradition cohered into the Lost Cause myth, by which southerners claimed moral victory despite military defeat. It was a force that would undermine Reconstruction and, as Poole shows in chapters on religion, gender, and politics, weave its way into nearly every dimension of white southern life. The Lost Cause's shadow still looms over the South, Poole argues, in contemporary controversies such as those over the display of the Confederate flag. Never Surrender brings new clarity to the intellectual history of southern conservatism and the South's collective memory of the Civil War.
Rally 'round the Flag, Boys!
Author: K. Michael Prince
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781570035272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive history of South Carolina's Confederate flag controversy and 2005 finalist for Popular Culture Book of the Year from ForeWord Magazine.
Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South
Author: Jaime Amanda Martinez
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013-12-07
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1469610752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder policies instituted by the Confederacy, white Virginians and North Carolinians surrendered control over portions of their slave populations to state authorities, military officials, and the national government to defend their new nation. State and local officials cooperated with the Confederate War Department and Engineer Bureau, as well as individual generals, to ensure a supply of slave labor on fortifications. Using the implementation of this policy in the Upper South as a window into the workings of the Confederacy, Jaime Amanda Martinez provides a social and political history of slave impressment. She challenges the assumption that the conduct of the program, and the resistance it engendered, was an indication of weakness and highlights instead how the strong governments of the states contributed to the war effort. According to Martinez, slave impressment, which mirrored Confederate governance as a whole, became increasingly centralized, demonstrating the efficacy of federalism within the CSA. She argues that the ability of local, state, and national governments to cooperate and enforce unpopular impressment laws indicates the overall strength of the Confederate government as it struggled to enforce its independence.
A Guide to Confederate Monuments in South Carolina
Author: Robert S. Seigler
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2012-07
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA county-by-county listing of "all Confederate monuments that appear on courthouse lawns and town squares, in cemeteries, in churchyards, and in public parks throughout South Carolina; memorials erected by churches to honor members of the congregation who served or died in the war; grave markers of all Confederate generals buried in South Carolina; markers commemorating the women of the state; and numerous smaller markers."--Introduction, p. 10
South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865
Author: Charles Edward Cauthen
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781570035609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1950 and long sought by collectors and historians, South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865 stands as the only institutional and political history of the Palmetto State's secession from the Union, entry into the Confederacy, and management of the war effort. Notable for its attention to the precursors of war too often neglected in other studies, the volume devotes half of its chapters to events predating the firing on Fort Sumter and pays significant attention to the Executive Councils of 1861 and 1862.
A Diary from Dixie
Author: Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780674202917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.
No Holier Spot of Ground
Author: Kristina Dunn Johnson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-04-06
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1614232822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe monuments of South Carolina bear on their weathered faces and cracked tablets a history of honor and of memory embodied in stone. Whether revealing the lost graves of Southern sons, unveiling the history of the only national cemetery to inter Confederate soldiers alongside the Union fallen during wartime or recording the simple obelisks that reach for heaven throughout the Palmetto State, this volume is a story of remembrance and of mourning. Kristina Dunn Johnson, curator of history with the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, shares with us the powerful stories of memory and acceptance that are the legacy of the Confederacy, as varied as those who lie beneath the Southern soil.
Wade Hampton
Author: Rod Andrew Jr.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-11-30
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 0807889008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal life. Rod Andrew's critical biography sheds light on his central role during Reconstruction as a conservative white leader, governor, U.S. senator, and Redeemer; his heroic image in the minds of white southerners; and his positions and apparent contradictions on race and the role of African Americans in the New South. Andrew also shows that Hampton's tragic past explains how he emerged in his own day as a larger-than-life symbol--of national reconciliation as well as southern defiance.
