Inside The Confederate Nation

by Gordon, Lesley J.; Inscoe, John C.

• ISBN13: 9780807130995
• ISBN10: 0807130990
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

In The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience (1970) and The Confederate Nation (1979), Emory Thomas redefined the field of Civil War history and reconceptualized the Confederacy as a unique entity fighting a war for survival. Today scholars continue to build on Thomas's work. Inside the Confederate Nation honors his enormous contributions to the field with fresh interpretations of all aspects of Confederate life--nationalism and identity, family and gender, battlefront and homefront, race, and postwar legacies and memories. Many of the volume's twenty essays focus on individuals, households, communities, and particular regions of the South, highlighting the sheer variety of circumstances southerners faced over the course of the war. Other chapters explore the public and private dilemmas confronted by diplomats, policy makers, journalists, and soldiers within the new nation. All of the essays attempt to explain the place of southerners within the Confederacy, how they came to see themselves and others differently because of the new nation, and the disparities between their expectations and reality. Contributors include James M. McPherson, William C. Davis, Joseph T. Glatthaar, and many other prominent and rising scholars. This exciting new collection continues the interpretive debates Thomas's work first inspired thirty-five years ago, affirming his lasting influence on Civil War history.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction
JOHN C. INSCOE AND LESLEY J. GORDON	1	(10)
Emory M. Thomas and the Confederate Imagination
RUSSELL DUNCAN AND JENNIFER LUND SMITH	11	(20)
NATIONALISM AND IDENTITY
Striking a Revolution's First Blow
WILLIAM C. DAVIS	31	(10)
A Revolution in Raleigh: Ilic Early Transformation of a Confederate State Capital, 1861
DAVID H. McGEE	41	(18)
Shades of Nation: Confederate Loyalties in Southeastern Virginia
BRIAN S. WILLS	59	(19)
The Literary Shaping of Confederate Identity: Daniel R. Hundley and John Beauchamp Jones in Peace and War
FRANK J. BYRNE	78	(19)
The Saratoga That Wasn't: Confederate Recognition and the Effect of Antietam Abroad
JAMES M. McPHERSON	97	(14)
"Witness the Redemption of the Army": Reenlistments in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, January—March 1864
KEITH S. BOHANNON	111	(17)
The Essential Nationalism of the People: Georgia's Confederate Congressional Election of 1863
ROD ANDREW JR.	128	(19)
"The Chrysalis State": Slavery, Confederate Identity, and the Creation of the Border South
CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS	147	(20)
FAMILY AND GENDER
The Moral imagination of Confederate Family Politics
JEAN E. FRIEDMAN	167	(21)
Courting Nationalism: The Wartime Letters of Bobbie Mitchell and Nettie Fondren
LESLEY J. GORDON	188	(21)
"And for the Widow and Orphan": Confederate Widows, Poverty, and Public Assistance
JENNIFER LYNN GROSS	209	(21)
"Talking Heroines": Elite Mountain Women as Chroniclers of Stoneman's Raid, April 1865
JOHN C. INSCOE	230	(21)
RACE
The Costliness of Discrimination: Medical Care for Black Troops in the Civil War
JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR	251	(21)
The Atlanta Campaign and the African American Experience in Civil War Georgia
CLARENCE L. MOHR	272	(23)
Half Slave, Half Free: Unionist Robert Webster in Confederate Atlanta
THOMAS G. DYER	295	(21)
"What Price Must We Pay for Victory?": Views on Arming Slaves from Lynchburg, Virginia, to Galveston, Texas
PHILIP D. DILLARD	316	(19)
"While the Participants Are Yet Alive": The Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy
GLENNA R. SCHROEDER-LEIN	335	(14)
When Charles Francis Adams Met Robert E. Lee: A Southern Gentleman in History and Memory
NINA SILBER	349	(12)
The Last Word
WILLIAM S. McFEELY	361	(2)
Select Bibliography	363	(4)
Editors and Contributors	367	(4)
Index	371