Diehard rebels : the Confederate culture of invincibility / Jason Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Jason, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confederate States of America. Army.

Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Attitudes.

Soldiers.

Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Psychology.

Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Biography.

History.

Psychological aspects.

Psychology.

United States.

Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.

Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America--Social conditions.

Confederate States of America--Politics and government.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Social aspects.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Psychological aspects.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2007]

Summary:

Well into the final months of the Civil War, countless Confederate soldiers earnestly believed that victory lay just around the corner. How could this be? Jason Phillips reveals the deeply ingrained attitudes that shaped the reality of these diehards not only during the war but in the subsequent era, when the myth of the Lost Cause was born.

Contents:

Introduction: Southern Invincibility and Confederate Defeat 1

1 The Smile of Providence: Confederate Religion and Invincibility 9

2 The Mask of Cain: Enemy Images in Rebel Minds 40

3 Without a Murmur: Confederate Endurance and the Immediate War 76

4 Gray Grapevines: Rumors and the Distant War 116

5 The Face of Surrender: Diehard Rebels in 1865 147

Conclusion: The Aftermath of Invincibility 178.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.

ISBN:

9780820328362

0820328367

OCLC:

122309042