Inside the Confederate Nation
Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2007
400 pages
978-0-8071-4796-2 (ISBN)
Description
In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life -- nationalism and identity, family and gender, battlefront and home front, race, and postwar legacies and memories. Many of the volume's twenty essays focus on individuals, households, communities, and particular regions of the South, highlighting the sheer variety of circumstances southerners faced over the course of the war. Other chapters explore the public and private dilemmas faced by diplomats, policy makers, journalists, and soldiers within the new nation. All of the essays attempt to explain the place of southerners within the Confederacy, how they came to see themselves and others differently because of secession, and the disparities between their expectations and reality.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Emory M. Thomas and the Confederate Imagination
- NATIONALISM AND IDENTITY
- Striking a Revolution's First Blow
- A Revolution in Raleigh: The Early Transformation of a Confederate State Capital, 1861
- Shades of Nation: Confederate Loyalties in Southeastern Virginia
- The Literary Shaping of Confederate Identity: Daniel R. Hundley and John Beauchamp Jones in Peace and War
- The Saratoga That Wasn't: Confederate Recognition and the Effect of Antietam Abroad
- "Witness the Redemption of the Army": Reenlistments in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, January-March 1864
- The Essential Nationalism of the People: Georgia's Confederate Congressional Election of 1863
- "The Chrysalis State": Slavery, Confederate Identity, and the Creation of the Border South
- FAMILY AND GENDER
- The Moral Imagination of Confederate Family Politics
- Courting Nationalism: The Wartime Letters of Bobbie Mitchell and Nettie Fondren
- "And for the Widow and Orphan": Confederate Widows, Poverty, and Public Assistance
- "Talking Heroines": Elite Mountain Women as Chroniclers of Stoneman's Raid, April 1865
- RACE
- The Costliness of Discrimination: Medical Care for Black Troops in the Civil War
- The Atlanta Campaign and the African American Experience in Civil War Georgia
- Half Slave, Half Free: Unionist Robert Webster in Confederate Atlanta
- "What Price Must We Pay for Victory?": Views on Arming Slaves from Lynchburg, Virginia, to Galveston, Texas
- MEMORY AND LEGACIES
- "While the Participants Are Yet Alive": The Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy
- When Charles Francis Adams Met Robert E. Lee: A Southern Gentleman in History and Memory
- The Last Word
- Select Bibliography
- Editors and Contributors
- Index
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