South Vs the South : How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
Title:
South Vs the South : How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War.
Author:
Freehling, William W.
ISBN:
9780198029908
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (429 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedicaton -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: The Other House Divided -- 1 The Union's Task -- 2 Fault Lines in the Pre-Civil War South -- 3 The Secession Crisis -- Part Two: Southern White Anti-Confederates -- 4 From Neutrality to Unionism -- 5 The Jackpot -- Part Three: Southern Black Anti-Confederates -- 6 The Delay -- 7 The Collaboration -- 8 The Harvest -- Part Four: Last Full Measure -- 9 The Last Best Hope -- 10 The Taproot and Its Blight -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, or the North's industrial might. This text offers an alternative answer to this question, arguing that anti-Confederate Southerners helped cost the Confederacy the war.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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