David Schenck and the contours of Confederate identity / Rodney Steward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steward, Rodney, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers--North Carolina--Biography.

Lawyers.

Political culture--North Carolina--History--19th century.

Political culture.

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

North Carolina.

North Carolina--Politics and government--1861-1865.

North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.

North Carolina--Social conditions--19th century.

Schenck, David, 1835-1902.

Schenck, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A mid-level Confederate official and lawyer in secessionist North Carolina, David Schenck (1835-1902) penned extensive diaries that have long been a wellspring of information for historians. In the midst of the secession crisis, Schenck overcame long-established social barriers and reshaped antebellum notions of manhood, religion, and respectability into the image of a Confederate nationalist. He helped found the revolutionary States' Rights Party and relentlessly pursued his vision of an idealized Southern society even after the collapse of the Confederacy. In the first biogra

Contents:

Coming of age

Secessionist revolution

The home front

Reconstruction, 1865-1868

Klansman, 1868-1874

Esse quam videri, 1878-1902.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613676689

9781572339682

1572339683

9781280699702

1280699701

9781572338920

157233892X

OCLC:

795120250