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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... Keep Out of the Army " It was hardly unusual for questions to be raised about the legality under which " conscribed persons " were drafted . According to one ac- count , conscript officers went " sweeping through the country with lit ...
... Keep Out of the Army " It was hardly unusual for questions to be raised about the legality under which " conscribed persons " were drafted . According to one ac- count , conscript officers went " sweeping through the country with lit ...
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... keep out of the way of the Rebel cavalry . " Another Al- abama slave , Benjamin Haynes , took provisions to his owner's son , who was " hid out to prevent his being conscripted . " Though slaves ' motives for rendering such aid were ...
... keep out of the way of the Rebel cavalry . " Another Al- abama slave , Benjamin Haynes , took provisions to his owner's son , who was " hid out to prevent his being conscripted . " Though slaves ' motives for rendering such aid were ...
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... keep blacks in the South . Republicans and War Democrats in Congress who sup- ported ending slavery as a necessary war measure put pressure on Lin- coln as well . Some even argued that escaping slaves ought to be enlisted and put on the ...
... keep blacks in the South . Republicans and War Democrats in Congress who sup- ported ending slavery as a necessary war measure put pressure on Lin- coln as well . Some even argued that escaping slaves ought to be enlisted and put on the ...
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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