... secession Border States Confederate States of America Fort Sumter Bull Run conscription One of the mail bags that arrived during the Clover Hill muster carried letters of appointment from Governor John Letcher, who tried to achieve political balance in selecting county commissioners...

...This chapter shows how the supporters of the Confederate States of America regarded themselves as the true progenitors of the republic. They also deemed their secession from the Union as a return to the world of limited national government envisioned by the Founding Fathers. In his Inaugural...

... also illustrates how political tensions spilled over into violence in the Border South, as Baltimore and Saint Louis endured large-scale riots in response to the presence of federal troops. Border South Buchanan Franklin Confederate States of America Lincoln Abraham Republican Party Baltimore MD...

... Carolina. He considers his decision to stand by the Union as it prepared to fight the Confederate States to be the most critical step of his life. During a grand meeting called in their town, addressed by Peter Wilkes and other speakers from Springfield, Missouri. Kelso joined with others to form military...

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...This chapter describes the Irish enlistment in the Confederate Army. The Irish who wished to remain in the southern states were compelled to switch their allegiance to the new Confederate States of America. Many responded to calls to defend it, often forming their own ethnic units. About 20,000...

...Slaves were not initially involved in the U.S. Civil War, as white men were presumed to be the ones to settle the momentous issues that had divided the Union. Federal officials believed that the black population would not affect the outcome of the conflict, and few in the Confederate States foresaw...

...This chapter analyzes how De Bow viewed the American Civil War. As a leading secessionist he hoped for an important job in the new government of the Confederate States of America. He became an agent for the Produce Loan Office, which attempted to raise money for the southern war effort. His new job...

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... of Mississippi, and that the said state “shall be a free, sovereign, independent state.” It also allowed Mississippi to form another “Federal Union” with other southern slave states that had likewise seceded, eventually becoming the Confederate States of America. The chapter then describes the opposition...

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...This chapter describes the ratification of the newly made Confederate constitution by the Second Mississippi Secession Convention. Ratification would make the state a part of the Confederate States of America, under the helm of President Jefferson Davis. Each of the notables of the Convention...

... black codes Goldsboro N C Ku Klux Klan Perry Benjamin Franklin Grimes Charlotte E Republicans Grimes Bryan McCarthy Carlton Shotwell Randolph A Confederate States of America. army – demobilization Citizenship Guerrilla warfare Journeys – walking For many Americans, then and now...

... Roudanez Jean Baptiste Roudanez Louise Thezan Sidney Williams Mary B voting rights Roudanez Louis Charles Trévigne Paul Civil War Impressment Rebellion Forced labor Forced enslavement Military United States Army Confederate States Civilians On July 5, 1854, Marietta T. Hill, a free girl...

...This chapter provides an overview of the book’s main themes. This book revisits a set of public monuments, historic buildings, and other memorials that define the didactic landscape of a would-be nation, the Confederate States of America. The focus is on South Carolina for three sets of reasons...

... in the Confederacy following secession and, by the winter of 1861, appeared to be on a path toward relative normality. In the spring of 1862, however, Union forces won several major victories and captured or threatened many of the Confederate States of America’s biggest slave trading centers, including Alexandria...

... Carolina should preserve her sovereignty by securing supplies and weapons to arm the state. As South Carolina joined Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida in establishing the Confederate States of America, Trenholm started a trend that would be rapidly copied by others: he began to change...

...This chapter argues that the Confederate States of America represented, even more so than the slave power, the apotheosis of the states’ rights doctrine, with the Declaration of Independence figuring heavily in Jefferson Davis and the South’s defense of secession. Conversely, Lincoln...