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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... killed all thirteen of her children " rather than have them suffer slavery . " Two boatloads of Africans newly ar- rived in Charleston committed mass suicide by starving themselves to death.18 Sometimes slaves killed their oppressors ...
... killed all thirteen of her children " rather than have them suffer slavery . " Two boatloads of Africans newly ar- rived in Charleston committed mass suicide by starving themselves to death.18 Sometimes slaves killed their oppressors ...
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... killed on the spot , some after they had been wounded and taken prisoner . Of those who escaped the Nueces Massacre , six were later shot trying to cross the Rio Grande.29 Those dissenters for whom exile was not an option were no less ...
... killed on the spot , some after they had been wounded and taken prisoner . Of those who escaped the Nueces Massacre , six were later shot trying to cross the Rio Grande.29 Those dissenters for whom exile was not an option were no less ...
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... killed for refusing to enlist in the Confederate army . His brother , George Washington Curtis , joined the Union ... killed for the love of killing . His pleasure in doing so was expressed as " a sort of gay , nervous chuckle ...
... killed for refusing to enlist in the Confederate army . His brother , George Washington Curtis , joined the Union ... killed for the love of killing . His pleasure in doing so was expressed as " a sort of gay , nervous chuckle ...
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