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Rebels Against The Confederacy
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Author : Barton A. Myers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07
Rebels Against The Confederacy written by Barton A. Myers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07 with North Carolina categories.
In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggle
Rebels Against Confederate Mississippi
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Author : Victoria E. Bynum
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-03-15
Rebels Against Confederate Mississippi written by Victoria E. Bynum and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with History categories.
Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. In this UNC Press Short, excerpted from The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, Victoria E. Bynum traces Newton Knight's story from his enlistment in the Confederate Army, to his desertion and formation of the Knight Company, to the violent clashes with Confederate authorities that culminated in the infamous Lowry raids of 1864. UNC Press Civil War Shorts excerpt compelling, shorter narratives from selected best-selling books published by the University of North Carolina Press and present them as engaging, quick reads. Produced exclusively in ebook format, these shorts present essential concepts, defining moments, and concise introductions to topics. They are intended to stir the imagination and encourage further exploration of the original publications from which these works are drawn.
Jefferson Davis Rallies The Rebels 1863
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Author : C. L. Gammon
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-11-16
Jefferson Davis Rallies The Rebels 1863 written by C. L. Gammon and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-16 with categories.
Jefferson Davis Rallies the Rebels (1863) deals with the efforts of Jefferson Davis to buck up the Confederates and to carry the Civil War to a successful conclusion for the Rebels. He offered several solutions to the grave situation the Rebels found themselves. He also placed blame for the Confederate failures (mostly Lincoln and England). Throughout, he never relented in his message that the Rebels would prevail. The author employs the December 7, 1863 Annual Message to the Confederate Congress as a starting point. However, the author utilizes various other sources to expand upon - and sometimes refute - the opinions Davis expressed. Throughout his message Davis expressed the following beliefs: (1) The situation of the Confederacy in December 1863 was bad, even desperate. However, it was not hopeless. (2) Congress could repair the internal problems facing the Confederacy, if it followed his plan and instituted those remedies he demanded immediately. (3) The Union led by Lincoln was ruthless, brutal, immoral, and ungodly. Lincoln had allowed, even encouraged, the commission of war crimes by his underlings. (4) The Union refused to accept a just peace. The Yankees were willing to destroy their own prosperity and rip their Constitution to shreds in order to coerce the Southerners to remain under their control. (5) The Union had poisoned foreign nations against the Confederacy. It had even managed to join with those foreign nations, especially England, in an unlawful alliance against the Rebels. (6) The citizens of the Confederacy were loyal and were willing to accept any sacrifice, even death, to support the Rebel cause. (7) Davis bore no responsibility for the terrible situation that the Confederate found itself. He never once admitted any single error on his point. Every Confederate mistake was, according to Davis, the blame of the Congress or of military commanders
Reluctant Rebels
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Author : Kenneth W. Noe
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2010-05-14
Reluctant Rebels written by Kenneth W. Noe and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-14 with History categories.
After the feverish mobilization of secession had faded, why did Southern men join the Confederate army? Kenneth Noe examines the motives and subsequent performance of "later enlisters." He offers a nuanced view of men who have often been cast as less patriotic and less committed to the cause, rekindling the debate over who these later enlistees were, why they joined, and why they stayed and fought. Noe refutes the claim that later enlisters were more likely to desert or perform poorly in battle and reassesses the argument that they were less ideologically savvy than their counterparts who enlisted early in the conflict. He argues that kinship and neighborhood, not conscription, compelled these men to fight: they were determined to protect their families and property and were fueled by resentment over emancipation and pillaging and destruction by Union forces. But their age often combined with their duties to wear them down more quickly than younger men, making them less effective soldiers for a Confederate nation that desperately needed every able-bodied man it could muster. Reluctant Rebels places the stories of individual soldiers in the larger context of the Confederate war effort and follows them from the initial optimism of enlistment through the weariness of battle and defeat.
Lincolnites And Rebels
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Author : Robert Tracy McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-09
Lincolnites And Rebels written by Robert Tracy McKenzie and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-09 with History categories.
At the start of the Civil War, Knoxville, Tennessee, with a population of just over 4,000, was considered a prosperous metropolis little reliant on slavery. Although the surrounding countryside was predominantly Unionist in sympathy, Knoxville itself was split down the middle, with Union and Confederate supporters even holding simultaneous political rallies at opposite ends of the town's main street. Following Tennessee's secession, Knoxville soon became famous (or infamous) as a stronghold of stalwart Unionism, thanks to the efforts of a small cadre who persisted in openly denouncing the Confederacy. Throughout the course of the Civil War, Knoxville endured military occupation for all but three days, hosting Confederate troops during the first half of the conflict and Union forces throughout the remainder, with the transition punctuated by an extended siege and bloody battle during which nearly forty thousand soldiers fought over the town. In Lincolnites and Rebels, Robert Tracy McKenzie tells the story of Civil War Knoxville-a perpetually occupied, bitterly divided Southern town where neighbor fought against neighbor. Mining a treasure-trove of manuscript collections and civil and military records, McKenzie reveals the complex ways in which allegiance altered the daily routine of a town gripped in a civil war within the Civil War and explores the agonizing personal decisions that war made inescapable. Following the course of events leading up to the war, occupation by Confederate and then Union soldiers, and the troubled peace that followed the war, Lincolnites and Rebels details in microcosm the conflict and paints a complex portrait of a border state, neither wholly North nor South.
Diehard Rebels
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Author : Jason Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2007
Diehard Rebels written by Jason Phillips and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Concentrates on diehard rebel soldiers' faith in Confederate invincibility and reveals the history of southern culture as a continuum rather than a succession of old South, Confederacy, new South.
Rebels In The Making
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Author : William L. Barney
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
Rebels In The Making written by William L. Barney and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
"Rebels in the Making narrates and interprets secession in the fifteen slave states in 1860-1861. It is a political history informed by the socio-economic structures of the South and the varying forms they took across the region. It explains how a small minority of Southern radicals exploited the hopes and fears of Southern whites over slavery after Lincoln's election in November of 1860 to create and lead a revolutionary movement with broad support, especially in the Lower South. It reveals a divided South in which the commitment to secession was tied directly to the extent of slave ownership and the political influence of local planters. White fears over the future of slavery were at the center of the crisis, and the refusal of Republicans to sanction the expansion of slavery doomed efforts to reach a sectional compromise. In January six states in the Lower South joined South Carolina in leaving the Union, and delegates from the seceded states organized a Confederate government in February. Lincoln's call for troops to uphold the Union after the Confederacy fired upon Fort Sumter in April 1861 finally pushed the reluctant states of the Upper South to secede in defense of slavery and white supremacy"--
Mountain Rebels
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Author : W. Todd Groce
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 1999
Mountain Rebels written by W. Todd Groce and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Groce offers a gracefully written, impressively researched narrative account of the experience of East Tennessee Confederates during the Civil War era. His analysis raises provocative questions about the socioeconomic foundations of Civil War sympathies in the Mountain South."--Robert Tracy McKenzie, University of Washington "Scholars of Appalachia's Civil War have long awaited Todd Groce's study of East Tennessee secessionists. I am pleased to report that this ground-breaking study of Southern Mountain Confederates was worth the wait."--Kenneth Noe, State University of West Georgia A bastion of Union support during the Civil War, East Tennessee was also home to Confederate sympathizers who took up the Southern cause until the bitter end. Yet historians have viewed these mountain rebels as scarcely different from other Confederates or as an aberration in the region's Unionism. Often they are simply ignored. W. Todd Groce corrects this distorted view of East Tennessee's antebellum development and wartime struggle. He paints a clearer picture of the region's Confederates than has previously been available, examining why they chose secession over union and revealing why they have become so invisible to us today. Drawing extensively on primary sources--newspapers, diaries, government reports--Groce allows the voices of these mountain rebels finally to be heard. Groce explains the economic forces and the family and political ties to the Deep South that motivated the East Tennessee Confederates reluctantly to join the fight for Southern independence. Caught in a war they neither sought nor started, they were trapped between an unfriendly administration in Richmond and a hostile Union majority in their midst. When the fighting was over and they returned home to face their vengeful Unionist neighbors, many were forced to flee, contributing to the postwar economic decline of the region. Placing the story in a broad context, Groce provides an overview of the region's economy and explains the social origins of secessionist sympathies. He also presents a collective profile of one hundred high-ranking Confederate officers from East Tennessee to show how they were representative of the rising commercial and financial leadership in the region. Mountain Rebels intertwines economic, political, military, and social history to present a poignant tale of defeat, suffering, and banishment. By piecing together this previously untold story, it fills a void in Southern history, Civil War history, and Appalachian studies. The Author: W. Todd Groce is executive director of the Georgia Historical Society.
Rebels Against The Confederacy
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Author : Barton A. Myers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-13
Rebels Against The Confederacy written by Barton A. Myers and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-13 with History categories.
In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggled to build a new nation at the local level and maintain control over manpower, labor, agricultural, and financial resources, which Southern Unionists possessed. The story is not solely one of triumph over adversity but also one of persecution and, ultimately, erasure of these dissidents by the postwar South's Lost Cause mythologizers.
A Rebel S Recollections
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Author : George Cary Eggleston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
A Rebel S Recollections written by George Cary Eggleston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with United States categories.