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Copperhead gore : Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America / edited and with an introduction by Menahem Blondheim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Benjamin, 1820-1900.
- Standardized Title:
- Fort Lafayette
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pacifism--Fiction.
- Pacifism.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin has often been cited for its galvanizing effect on anti-slavery opposition in the years before the American Civil War. Southern sympathizers in the North (known as Copperheads) never came close to producing anything that matched its influence. One of the more interesting attempts was Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession (1862). The novel -- which features liberal doses of love and lust, intrigue and violence, loyalty and death -- is by no means great literatu
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; preface; Introduction; FORT LAFAYETTE; OR,LOVE AND SECESSION; Appendix 1. Speech 1: "State of the Union,"Benjamin Wood, 16 May 1862; Appendix 2. Speech 2: "Restoration of Peace: On the proposition for ageneral convention to devise measures for the restoration ofpeace to our country,"Benjamin Wood, 27 February 1863; Glossary and Explanatory Notes toFort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612072772
- 0-253-11190-0
- 1-282-07277-3
- 1-4337-0847-7
- OCLC:
- 476026790
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