Volunteer Forty-niners
Volunteer Forty-niners

Author: Walter T. Durham

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780826512987

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In Volunteer Forty-Niners, Walter T. Durham provides the first comprehensive examination of the role Tennessee and Tennesseans played in creating a new state and a new society on the West Coast. Drawing from such archival sources as personal narratives in letters and diaries, public records, and newspaper reports, Durham has woven a wealth of information into his recounting of their adventures.

Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861
Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861

Author: Jonathan M. Atkins

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9780870499500

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In this thought-provoking study, Jonathan M. Atkins provides a fresh look at the partisan ideological battles that marked the political culture of antebellum Tennessee. He argues that the legacy of party politics was a key factor in shaping Tennessee's hesitant course during the crisis of Union in 1860-61. No previous book has so clearly detailed the role of party politics and ideology in Tennessee's early history. As Atkins shows, the ideological debate helps to explain not only the character and survival of Tennessee's party system but also the persistent strength of unionism in a state that ultimately joined the Southern cause.