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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Confederacy"”.
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Two paths to command: command systems of the Union and the Confederacy, 1861-1865
… look at the command systems of the Union and the Confederacy as they evolved during the Civil War in part explains why the war was fought the way it was and why it lasted four years. Both nations began the war with national command systems which were ill-equipped to control the huge armies which …
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Propaganda Use by the Union and Confederacy in Great Britain during the American Civil War, 1861-1862
… Great Britain to support their objectives. The Confederacy and the Union used various avenues, including rallies, talking with members of Parliament, and publications to convince the British that supporting the Confederacy was the correct action to take. The Union's most well-known weapon …
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From Lost Cause to Female Empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) organized in 1896 primarily to care for aging veterans and their families. In addition to this original goal, members attempted to reform Texas society by replacing the practices and values of their male peers with morals and …
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Glory Stands Beside Our Grief: the Maryland United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Assertion of Their Identity
… the position of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Maryland Division as a Lost Cause organization in a border state, and argues how the women sought respect from the national UDC chapter and divisions of former Confederate states. Women of the Maryland UDC believed strongly in their …
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The Lost Cause: An Examination of the Defeat of the Confederate States of America
This study examines the Lost Cause of the Confederacy and the reasons for the defeat of the Confederate States of America. The Confederate States of America was created with propaganda, lofty ideals and unbridled optimism. With the outcome of the American Civil War known, this study seeks to answer …
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Creek diplomacy in an imperial Atlantic world
… role in the Atlantic world even while the Confederacy itself was still forming. This study explores Creek participation in the Atlantic world in two ways. First, it traces Creek diplomatic travel to European centers. Second, it examines Creek reception of European traders and diplomats in …
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Competing Visions of America: The Fourth of July During the Civil War
… Union, the other on the Fourth of July in the Confederacy. Three separate areas of commemoration are analyzed: in newspaper rhetoric, on the home front, and on the battlefield. Rather than stating that the Confederacy abandoned the holiday entirely, this thesis shows that the North and the …
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"With this belt [we] bind your Hearts and minds with ours": Diplomacy and Conflict in the Ohio River Valley, 1783-1793
… they vied to retain their lands. The Ohio Indian Confederacy, the largest pan-Indian movement in the history of North America, has been viewed primarily as allies of the Great Powers. Their unlikely and unexpected emergence drastically changed the political dynamics on the ground for the competing …
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“All the Land Thrown Open:” Southern Culture and Southern Baptist Chaplains: 1861-1865
… in the deep South. Southern nationalism saw the Confederacy as a new nation, blessed by God, and continuing the providential spirit of the Revolution. Likewise, their nation could only survive by God’s aid. Southern honor, largely shaped by Sir Walter Scott, spirited chivalrous attitudes towards …
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Messages for contemporary governance from the administrative history of the Confederate States of America
… administration at the national level in the Confederacy was characterized by administrative dualism (deference to state administrative norms and policy imperatives), restrained national level policy prerogatives, a normative orientation which emphasized responsiveness to public interest, and …
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Fighting for Independence and Slavery: Confederate Perceptions of Their War Experiences
… apathetic or even openly hostile toward the Confederacy. By far, nonslaveholders composed the greatest portion of the disaffected. This work interprets the Confederate war experience within a republican framework in order to better understand how such a drastic shift in opinion could take …
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Colonel Thomas T. Munford and the last cavalry operations of the Civil War in Virginia
… pathetic description of the final days of the Confederacy. Its importance and historical value result from the fact that it is a substantial narrative of Five Forks by an officer who actually participated in the battle. It delineates the failure of leadership that plaguedthe Confederate …
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A Unique Hell in Southwestern Virginia: Confederate Guerrillas and the Defense of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
… Virginia and connected the southwestern Confederacy with Richmond and the rest of Virginia. As the war progressed, this railway moved increasingly large amounts of foodstuffs and minerals vital to the Confederate war effort, and by the later stages of the war it was the most important …
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Confederate Lynchburg, 1861-1865
… Lynchburg cast her fate with Virginia and the Confederacy. Mobilization began at a rapid rate. Men flocked to the ranks, industries geared to war production and women began making clothing for the soldiers. Located on three railroad lines and a canal, Lynchburg became an important …
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… neither popular support for nor rejection of the Confederacy. It focuses on wartime activities like swearing the Federal oath, illicit trade with the Union army, and Confederate desertion to show how Mississippians acted on co-existent loyalty layers to self, family, and friend-networks that were …
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Mosby's Rangers: the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A.
… 1863, Mosby's rangers had won the hearts of the Confederacy in the daring capture of Union Brig. Gen. E. H. Stoughton. During June, 1863, the first of eight companies was formally organized under the authority of the Partisan Ranger Law. In the ensuing months, the unit concentrated their …
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Examining Contemporary Congressional Theories Historically: Essays on the Congress of the Confederate States of America
… the causes behind the no-party structure in the Confederacy. I find that the absence of parties was in fact due to partisan activity within the Confederate Constitutional Convention. In short, Democrats used their majority status to prohibit, through Constitutional amendment, the two major issues …
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