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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Confederate States of America"”.
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Education in the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865
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The struggle for recognition by the Confederate States of America
… struggle for its independence. The military side of that struggle has received much attention from the historians, but the diplomatic aspect has not received an equal share of attention. There is a close relationship between the military and diplomatic efforts of the South. In the final analysis …
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General Henry Hopkins Sibley and the Grand Plan of the Confederate States of America
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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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Messages for contemporary governance from the administrative history of the Confederate States of America
… established to support the civil government of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865). Public administration at the national level in the Confederacy was characterized by administrative dualism (deference to state administrative norms and policy imperatives), restrained national level …
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Examining Contemporary Congressional Theories Historically: Essays on the Congress of the Confederate States of America
… 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 (protective tariffs and federal …
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Heritage or Hate?: An Examination of Americans’ Popular Memory of the Confederate States of America and Its Icons
During the American Civil War, the southern states declared themselves an independent nation called the Confederate States of America. After the Civil War ended, the Confederacy was reabsorbed into the United States. However, its memory and icons continued to be perceived separately. The current …
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Propaganda Use by the Union and Confederacy in Great Britain during the American Civil War, 1861-1862
At the beginning of the American Civil War, the United States (the Union) already had international diplomatic status, whereas the Confederate States of America wanted foreign recognition of its independence. The two governments sent agents and propagandists across the Atlantic, in particular to …
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How A Vessel of This Magnitude Was Moved : A Comparative Analysis of Confederate Ironclad Steam Engines, Boilers, and Propulsion Systems
The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the 19th century in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns resulted in a technological revolution in the world's navies. Warships utilizing all of these technologies had been built in France and Great Britain dating back to the …
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The Women of Waterford, Virginia: Gender, Unionism, Quakerism and Identity in the American Civil War
Over the course of the Civil War the small community of Waterford, Virginia maintained Unionist sentiments regardless of being a part of the Confederate States of America. These sentiments were rooted in loyalty to the United States, their ostracization from southern culture, and their Quaker …
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Dark Days in the Ohio Valley: Three Western Kentucky Lynchings, 1884-1911
This thesis investigates three lynchings of African Americans in Progressive-Era western Kentucky. The first occurred in Owensboro. In July 1884, a masked mob at-tacked the Daviess County jail. Richard May, an African-American field hand, had been incarcerated for the alleged sexual assault of a …
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The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas.
<p>At the close of the American Civil War some southerners unwilling to remain in a reconstructed South, elected to immigrate to areas of Central and South America to reestablish a Southern antebellum lifestyle.</p><p>The influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern …
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The Rio Grande Expedition, 1863-1865
In October 1863 the United States Army's Rio Grande Expedition left New Orleans, bound for the Texas coast. Reacting to the recent French occupation of Mexico, President Abraham Lincoln believed that the presence of U.S. troops in Texas would dissuade the French from intervening in the American …
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"We never met a foe in open field we did not drive, nor did we ever meet a foe who could drive us" : the 9th Texas Infantry.
The 9th Texas Infantry was formed at the start of the Civil War from companies recruited from North Texas. They fought with the Army of Tennessee until the end of the war. The men joined because of a variety of reasons from support for an independent Confederacy to a fear of being called cowards. …
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The Break-up of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Army, 1865
Unlike other Confederate armies at the conclusion of the Civil War, General Edmund Kirby Smith's Trans-Mississippi Army disbanded, often without orders, rather than surrender formally. Despite entreaties from military and civilian leaders to fight on, for Confederate soldiers west of the …
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
… have explored the racial attitudes and policies of the Confederate army. Although Southern men did not fight for slavery alone, the defense of the peculiar institution, and the racial control they believed it assured, united rebels in their support of the Confederacy and the war effort. Amid the …