The Correspondence Of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, And Howell Cobb
The Correspondence Of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, And Howell Cobb

Author: Robert Augustus Toombs

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 9781378530658

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A Press Divided
A Press Divided

Author: David B. Sachsman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1351534602

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A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil War era. These newspapers were divided between North and South, and also divided within the North and South. These divisions reflected and exacerbated the conflicts in political thought that caused the Civil War and the political and ideological battles within the Union and the Confederacy about how to pursue the war. In the North, dissenting voices alarmed the Lincoln administration to such a degree that draconian measures were taken to suppress dissenting newspapers and editors, while in the South, the Confederate government held to its fundamental belief in freedom of speech and was more tolerant of political attacks in the press. This volume consists of eighteen chapters on subjects including newspaper coverage of the rise of Lincoln, press reports on George Armstrong Custer, Confederate women war correspondents, Civil War photojournalists, newspaper coverage of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the suppression of the dissident press. This book tells the story of a divided press before and during the Civil War, discussing the roles played by newspapers in splitting the nation, newspaper coverage of the war, and the responses by the Union and Confederate administrations to press criticism.

Andrew Jackson Donelson
Andrew Jackson Donelson

Author: Richard Douglas Spence

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 699

ISBN-13: 0826504000

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This richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) sheds new light on the political and personal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew Jackson. A scion of a pioneering Tennessee family, Donelson was a valued assistant and trusted confidant of the man who defined the Age of Jackson. One of those central but background figures of history, Donelson had a knack for being where important events were happening and knew many of the great figures of the age. As his uncle's secretary, he weathered Old Hickory's tumultuous presidency, including the notorious "Petticoat War." Building his own political career, he served as US chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas, where he struggled against an enigmatic President Sam Houston, British and French intrigues, and the threat of war by Mexico, to achieve annexation. As minister to Prussia, Donelson enjoyed a ringside seat to the revolutions of 1848 and the first attempts at German unification. A firm Unionist in the mold of his uncle, Donelson denounced the secessionists at the Nashville Convention of 1850. He attempted as editor of the Washington Union to reunite the Democratic party, and, when he failed, he was nominated as Millard Fillmore's vice-presidential running mate on the Know-Nothing party ticket in 1856. He lived to see the Civil War wreck the Union he loved, devastate his farms, and take the lives of two of his sons.

On the Brink of Civil War
On the Brink of Civil War

Author: John C. Waugh

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780842029452

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This book tells the dramatic story of what happened when a handful of senators tried to hammer out a compromise to save the Union.

Georgians in Profile
Georgians in Profile

Author: Horace Montgomery

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0820335479

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Originally published: Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958.