Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil WarNew Press, 2008 - 310 من الصفحات From the author of the celebrated A People's History of the Civil War, a new account of the Confederacy's collapse from within. The American Confederacy, historian David Williams reveals, was in fact fighting two civil warsan external one that we hear so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness. From the Confederacy's very beginnings, Williams shows, white southerners were as likely to have opposed secession as supported it, and they undermined the Confederate war effort at nearly every turn. The draft law was nearly impossible to enforce, women defied Confederate authorities by staging food riots, and most of the time two-thirds of the Confederate army was absent with or without leave. In just one of many telling examples in this rich and eye-opening narrative history, Williams shows that, if the nearly half-million southerners who served in the Union military had been with the Confederates, the opposing forces would have been evenly matched. Shattering the myth of wartime southern unity, this riveting new analysis takes on the enduring power of the Confederacy's image and reveals it to be, like the Confederacy itself, a hollow shell. |
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... home guard companies , like the Nancy Harts of LaGrange , Georgia , made up en- tirely of women . Invariably , there were also many healthy men of draft age in home guards claiming exemption from conscription on that ba- sis . In ...
... home guard companies , like the Nancy Harts of LaGrange , Georgia , made up en- tirely of women . Invariably , there were also many healthy men of draft age in home guards claiming exemption from conscription on that ba- sis . In ...
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... home guards threatened to hang Jacob Moses for harboring his dissident ... guard threatened to shoot William Dillon for aiding deserters among his ... home guards did not always bluff . Guardsmen in northern Alabama warned Bird Norris to ...
... home guards threatened to hang Jacob Moses for harboring his dissident ... guard threatened to shoot William Dillon for aiding deserters among his ... home guards did not always bluff . Guardsmen in northern Alabama warned Bird Norris to ...
الصفحة 128
... home guard shot him for refusing to volunteer . Henry Archer was killed there as well after pleas from his wife , with a young child in her arms , were made in vain . So was John Blevins , whom the home guard sus- pected of ...
... home guard shot him for refusing to volunteer . Henry Archer was killed there as well after pleas from his wife , with a young child in her arms , were made in vain . So was John Blevins , whom the home guard sus- pected of ...
المحتوى
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Rich Mans War | 53 |
Fighting Each Other Harder Than We Ever Fought the Enemy | 109 |
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Alabama American anti-Confederates Arkansas armed Aughey band Battle blacks Brown Bynum called Carlson Cavalry Cherokees Civil Confeder Confederacy Confederate army Confederate Cherokees conscript cotton Creek deserters Disloyalty draft draft dodgers Early County editor election enemy enlist escape Escott families farmers fear federacy federal fight Florida Floyd County force fought Freedom Georgia Governor guerrilla History home guard hundred Ibid Indian Territory Jefferson Davis John Kansas killed labor land letter Lincoln Louisiana March Mississippi Negro nonslaveholders North Carolina northern officers Opothleyahola patrols Plain plantation planters political poor whites prison pro-Confederate raid Rebel rebellion refugees refused regiment resistance Rich Man's Rich Man's War Richmond River Ross secession secessionists shot slaveholders slavery slaves South southern speculators Stand Watie Tatum Tennessee Texas thousand threat tion told took troops Union army Unionists University Press Virginia volunteers vote war's warned Watie's wife Williams Winston Winston County women wrote Yankees