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Zeb Vance : North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader / Gordon B. McKinney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKinney, Gordon B., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Governors--North Carolina--Biography.
- Governors.
- North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States.
- Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894.
- Vance, Zebulon Baird.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (496 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized. Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union, but after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter, he joined the army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was viewed as a champion of individual rights and enjoyed great popularity among voters. But McKinney demonstrates that Vance was not as progre
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 What Manner of Man?; 2 A Mountain Boyhood; 3 Scholar and Suitor; 4 Lawyer and Apprentice Politician; 5 Congressman; 6 Secession Crisis; 7 Colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment; 8 Campaign for Governor; 9 Building a Strong North Carolina; 10 Relations with the Confederate Government; 11 Growing Challenges; 12 Protest; 13 Challenges to the Compromise; 14 Campaign for Reelection; 15 Returned to Office; 16 Defeat with Honor; 17 Prisoner; 18 The Politics of Reconstruction; 19 Frustrated Politician; 20 The Battle of Giants; 21 Governor Again
- 22 United States Senator23 Party Leader; 24 Farmers' Alliance and Reelection; 25 Decline; 26 Monuments and the Man; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-465) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890868176
- 9780807875933
- 0807875937
- OCLC:
- 476237102
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