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Jefferson Davis's final campaign : Confederate nationalism and the fight to arm slaves

Title

Jefferson Davis's final campaign : Confederate nationalism and the fight to arm slaves / Philip D. Dillard

Author

Dillard, Philip D.

Publication

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2017.
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Mercer University Press.

Description

286 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Jefferson Davis faced the greatest crisis of his Confederate presidency in the fall of 1864. Stunning Union victories and thinning army ranks forced Davis to decide whether independence or slavery was most important. In November, Davis called on Congress to reconsider the role of the slave in the Southern war effort. His goal was not simply to find more men for Lee's army but rather to create a new Confederate identity based in the experience of war rather than in the shadows of the Old South. Exploring the debate as it unfolded in Virginia, Georgia, and Texas, differences between the Upper South, Deep South, and Trans-Mississippi South emerge. Davis waged his final campaign in newspapers as he challenged the Southern people to define a new role for the slave. Discussion of black men in gray uniforms brought forth long-hidden divisions between planters, yeoman, and poor whites. By looking for common Southerners who held neither high government office nor military position, this work paints a more ocmplex picture of the importance of slavery within the Civil War South. By the spring of 1865, the conservative revolution of 1861 had in fact became a true revolution. The vast majority of Virginians, Georgians, and even some Texans discovered that slavery could be sacrificed more easily than Southern independence. Jefferson Davis won his final campaign by convincing many Southerners that the Confederate nation was more important than the institution of slavery. -- from back cover.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Evolving ideals -- Phase I: Dwindling men to the fall of Savannah. An astonishing notion ; Radical measures ; A shout in the night -- Phase 2: Savannah to the Hampton Roads Conference. With us or against us ; A matter of necessity ; No need to choose -- Phase III: Hampton Roads to Appomattox. A reasonable sacrifice ; All for independence ; A last resort - Conclusion. Independence or slavery?

Call Number

Sc E 17-1557

ISBN

9780881466058
0881466050

OCLC

990144758

Author

Dillard, Philip D., author.

Title

Jefferson Davis's final campaign : Confederate nationalism and the fight to arm slaves / Philip D. Dillard

Publisher

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Mercer University Press.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-1557

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