The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson Davis
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 866
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Author: Jefferson Davis
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 866
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 882
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Confederate States of America and an apologia for the causes that the author believed led to and justified the American Civil War.
Author: Anne Sarah Rubin
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009-11-20
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0807888958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union. She also demonstrates that an attachment to a symbolic or sentimental Confederacy existed independent of the political Confederacy and was therefore able to persist well after the collapse of the Confederate state. White Southerners redefined symbols and figures of the failed state as emotional touchstones and political rallying points in the struggle to retain local (and racial) control, even as former Confederates took the loyalty oath and applied for pardons in droves. Exploring the creation, maintenance, and transformation of Confederate identity during the tumultuous years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Rubin sheds new light on the ways in which Confederates felt connected to their national creation and provides a provocative example of what happens when a nation disintegrates and leaves its people behind to forge a new identity.
Author: Jefferson Davis
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Published: 1881
Total Pages: 782
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the Confederate States of America and an apologia for the causes that the author believed led to and justified the American Civil War.
Author: Bruce C. Levine
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1400067030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and rebuilding of Southern institutions as experienced by everyday people. By the award-winning author of Confederate Emancipation.
Author: Gaines M. Foster
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1987-04-23
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 019977210X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals such as memorial day observances, monument unveilings, and veterans' reunions, Ghosts of the Confederacy probes into how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat and explores the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster argues that, contrary to southern folklore, southerners actually accepted their loss, rapidly embraced both reunion and a New South, and helped to foster sectional reconciliation and an emerging social order. He traces southerners' fascination with the Lost Cause--showing that it was rooted as much in social tensions resulting from rapid change as it was in the legacy of defeat--and demonstrates that the public celebration of the war helped to make the South a deferential and conservative society. Although the ghosts of the Confederacy still haunted the New South, Foster concludes that they did little to shape behavior in it--white southerners, in celebrating the war, ultimately trivialized its memory, reduced its cultural power, and failed to derive any special wisdom from defeat.
Author: Williamson Simpson Oldham
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0826265510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Civil War memoir by a member of the Confederate Senate. Describing his travels between Richmond and Texas and analyzing the Confederate defeat, Williamson S. Oldham stresses the failure of the Congress to represent the sentiments of its citizens and the effects of CSA political and military measures on the country"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Jefferson Davis
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 776
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he termed 'an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern states to maintain their existence and their rights as sovereign communities.' The result was this perceptive two-volume chronicle, covering the birth, life, and death of the Confederacy, from the Missouri Compromise in 1820 through the tumultuous events of the Civil War, to the readmission of the Southern States to the U.S. Congress in the late 1860s.
Author: Jefferson Davis
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Published: 2014-01-09
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781494951603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Southerners and Northerners wrote about the Civil War after it was over, but none of them held as senior a position as Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president. While other generals wrote memoirs that historians still continue to debate about, Davis wrote the most comprehensive tome about the political aspects of the Civil War, particularly his fullthroated defense of the Confederacy's right to secede. His memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, is one of the most controversial works to come out of the Civil War. Volume I explains the political background of the country before the war, as well as his analysis of the Constitution and the right to secede.
Author: Ethan Sepp Rafuse
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780742551251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this reexamination of the last two years of Lee's storied military career, Ethan S. Rafuse offers a clear, informative, and insightful account of Lee's ultimately unsuccessful struggle to defend the Confederacy against a relentless and determined foe. This book provides a comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining narrative of the battles and campaigns that highlighted this phase of the war and analyzes the battles and Lee's generalship in the context of the steady deterioration of the Confederacy's prospects for victory.