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Confederate Lynchburg, 1861-1865
In 1860, Lynchburg was a thriving tobacco town. The "golden leaf" had stimulated the economy and made the city financially sound. When civil war erupted, Lynchburg cast her fate with Virginia and the Confederacy. Mobilization began at a rapid rate. Men flocked to the ranks, industries geared to war …
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Jeremy Gilmer and the Confederate engineers
This is a biography of Confederate Major General Jeremy Francis Gilmer. The primary emphasis of the paper is on Gilmer's career during the Civil War and his contributions to the Confederate Bureau of Engineers. Jeremy Francis Gilmer was a native of North Carolina. In 1835 he was appointed to West …
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Campaigns and Elections in Confederate Texas 1861 and 1863
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Unconquerable Defiance: Richmond Newspapers and Confederate Defeat, 1864-1865
… Civil War. It argues that the newspapers of the Confederate capital regularly exploited the propaganda value of the news they reported, employing methods including distortion of facts and libelous personal attacks. They displayed a seemingly total disregard for veracity in their zeal to convince …
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Henry Lewis Benning: Fire-eating Confederate General 1837-1865
<p>In the thirty-year period preceding the American Civil War, some southern politicians advocated disunion. Prominent among these was a young lawyer from Columbus, Georgia, Henry Lewis Benning. Ambitious and keen on rising within planter society, Benning married well and used his position to …
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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
… tell the story of the diplomatic efforts of the Confederate States of America to gain recognition as a member of the family of nations. Methods To develop this story there has been considerable reliance on secondary materials with use of the sources where they were available. The secondary …
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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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God of Our Fathers: Catholic Chaplains in the Confederate Armies
… covers the role played by Catholic chaplains in Confederate army regiments from Louisiana. It explores their life, ministry, military role, and impact on the regiments. To cover this in depth the Catholic chaplains selected we those who left published records.
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
… 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 …
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The Gendered Geography of War: Confederate Women As Camp Followers
… rarely defied gender norms. This thesis looks at Confederate female camp followers who appeared to defy societal conventions by entering the male dominated camps and blurred the lines between men and women’s proper spheres. While camp followers could be expanded to include women of the lower …
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Confederate Brig. Gen. B.H. Robertson and the 1863 Gettysburg campaign
Beverly Holcombe Robertson was a military commander around whose Civil War career controversy always seemed to swirl. Robertson was born June 5, 1827, to Dr. William H. and Martha (Holcombe) Robertson at the family plantation, "The Oaks," in Amelia County, Virginia. With the exception of the fact …
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Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory
… of many traditionalist Indians, and anti-Confederate Creeks, Seminoles, and African-Americans gathered under the leadership of dissident Creek chief Opothleyahola. Cultural divisions within the Five Tribes, and differing visions of sovereignty in the future, threatened to undermine …
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Furling The South Carolina Confederate Flag: Political Expediency Or Cultural Change?
Until July 2000, three Confederate battle flags flew at the South Carolina State House—one in each Legislative chamber and a third on top of the State House dome, on the same pole and just below the U.S. flag and the state’s Palmetto flag. A legislative compromise that year removed the flags from …
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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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Fighting for Independence and Slavery: Confederate Perceptions of Their War Experiences
… 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 place. Southern men fought for highly personal reasons--to protect their own liberty, independence, and to defend …
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"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:” Confederate Welfare In Mississippi
… Finally, this study argues that, unlike other Confederate soldiers’ homes, the residents of the Beauvoir Soldiers’ Home were not the poorest of the poor prior to the Civil War and came from diverse economic backgrounds.</p> <p>Few historians have written about the concept of Confederate …
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"""They Have Made a Nation"": Confederates and the Creation of Confederate Nationalism"
… to create a sense of nationalism: the Confederate constitutions, Confederate treasury notes, wartime Confederate literature, and the role of the military in symbolizing the Confederate nation. Taken altogether, the text of Confederate nationalism represents the creation of a ""mythic …
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