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"Our good and faithful servant" : James Moore Wayne and Georgia unionism / Joel McMahon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McMahon, Joel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wayne, James Moore, 1790-1867.
- Wayne, James Moore.
- United States. Supreme Court--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Unionists (United States Civil War)--Georgia--Biogaphy.
- Unionists (United States Civil War).
- Judges--United States--Georgia--Biography.
- Judges.
- Georgia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 249 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- United States Supreme Court Justice James Moore Wayne is the most famous Georgian nobody knows. When his home state seceded from the Union in 1861, Wayne retained his seat on the US Supreme Court and remained loyal to the Union as the nation lunged headlong into war. He knew the insanity of secession, and warned of the folly of disunion, but his son, Col. Henry Wayne, resigned his commission in the US Army and cast his lot with the Confederacy. This book tells their story and examines the nature of Georgia's strong and largely overlooked unionist sentiment in the decades before the Civil War.
- Contents:
- Part I James Moore Wayne and Georgia Unionism 5
- 1 Memory and History 7
- 2 Secession and the Location of Sovereignty 17
- 3 Our Good and Faithful Servant 26
- 4 A Crowded Historiography 35
- 5 Methodology and Structure 47
- Part II Wayne and the Political Dimension of Georgia Unionism 53
- 6 Noble Wayne 55
- 7 Gladiatorial Activities 63
- 8 Wayne and Georgia's Anti-Party System 72
- 9 Justice Wayne 91
- Part III Wayne and the Economic Dimension of Georgia Unionism 101
- 10 Economic Man 103
- 11 The Wills and Ways of Two Generations of Georgians 108
- 12 Georgia's Antebellum Economy 120
- 13 Jeremiahs and Judges 129
- 14 Tipping Point and Take-Off: Georgia on the Eve of the Civil War 139
- Part IV Wayne and the Social Dimension of Georgia Unionism 151
- 15 The Peculiar Institution in Georgia 153
- 16 Slave Society or a Society with Slaves? 164
- 17 The Peculiar Solution in Georgia 185
- 18 The Presidential Solution 195
- 19 A House Divided 201.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219] - 245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780881466065
- 0881466069
- OCLC:
- 989124830
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