Confederates against the Confederacy : essays on leadership and loyalty / Jon L. Wakelyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wakelyn, Jon L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political leadership.

Allegiance.

Unionists (United States Civil War).

Politicians.

Confederate States of America--Politics and government.

Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America--Social conditions.

Confederate States of America--Military policy.

Politicians--Confederate States of America.

Upper class--Political activity--Confederate States of America.

Upper class.

Upper class--Political activity.

Unionists (United States Civil War)--Confederate States of America.

Allegiance--Confederate States of America.

Political leadership--Confederate States of America.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Public opinion.

United States.

History.

Public opinion.

Physical Description:

xv, 189 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Contents:

1. The Changing Loyalties of James Henry Hammond 1

2. Fears for the Future: A Consideration of Reluctant Confederates' Arguments against Secession, the Confederacy, and Civil War 13

3. The Speakers of the State Legislatures' Failure as Confederate Leaders 35

4. Disloyalty in the Confederate Congress: The Character of Henry Stuart Foote 53

5. The Contributions of the Southern Episcopal Church to Confederate Unity and Morale 77

6. "Personal Remarks Are Hazardous on a Crowded Riverboat": Mary Boykin Chesnut and the Gossip on Confederate Divisiveness 97

7. A Consideration of the Causes and Effects of Slave States' Leaders' Disloyalty to the Confederacy 119.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-183) and index.

ISBN:

0275973646

OCLC:

48475292