The Yellowhammer War : The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama /
"Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama's role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath. During the first winter of the war, Confederate soldiers derided the men of an Alabama Confederate unit for t...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
University Alabama Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction
- Kenneth W. Noe; 1. Precipitating a Revolution: Alabama's Democracy in the Election of 1860
- Lonnie A. Burnett; 2. "The Aggressions of the North Can Be Borne No Longer": White Alabamian Women during the Secession Crisis and Outbreak of War
- Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño; 3. Confederate Alabama's Finest Hour: The Battle of Salem Church, May 3, 1863
- Ben H. Severance; 4. The Confederate Sun Sets on Selma: Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Defense of Alabamain 1865
- Brian Steel Wills.
- 5. Fighting for the Cause? An Examination of the Motivations of Alabama's Confederate Soldiers from a Class Perspective
- Kristopher A. Teters6. Voices from the Margins: Non-Elites in Confederate Alabama
- Victoria E. Ott; 7. Augusta Jane Evans: Alabama's Confederate Macaria
- Jennifer Lynn Gross; 8. "The Best Southern Patriots": Jews in Alabama during the Civil War
- Patricia A. Hoskins; 9. Every Man Should Consider His Own Conscience: Black and White Alabamians' Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Harriet E. Amos Doss.
- 10. Alabama's Reconstruction after 150 Years
- Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins11. Of Ambition and Enterprise: The Making of Carpetbagger George E. Spencer
- Terry L. Seip; 12. "He Was Always Preaching the Union": The Wartime Origins of White Republicanism during Reconstruction
- Michael W. Fitzgerald; 13. Labor, Law, and the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama, 1865-1867
- Jason J. Battles; 14. Freedom's Church: Sociocultural Construction, Reconstruction, and Post-Reconstruction in Perry County, Alabama's African American Churches
- Bertis English; Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors; Index.