Rebels against the Confederacy : North Carolina's unionists / Barton A. Myers, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
This book analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies on the American South.
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| Summary: | This book analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world. In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggled to build a new nation at the local level and maintain control over manpower, labor, agricultural, and financial resources, which Southern Unionists possessed. The story is not solely one of triumph over adversity but also one of persecution and, ultimately, erasure of these dissidents by the postwar South's Lost Cause mythologizers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 277 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316074466 1316074463 9781139871648 1139871641 9781316076835 1316076830 1316055558 9781316055557 1316083926 9781316083925 1316057925 9781316057926 1316081567 9781316081563 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139871648 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |