Download or read book The Confederate Governors written by Wilfred Buck Yearns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirteen essays examines the leaders of the southern states during the Civil War. Malcolm C. McMillan writes of the futile efforts of Alabama's wealthy governors to keep the trust of the poor non-slaveholding whites. Paul D. Escott shows Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson Brown's ability to please both the planter elite and the yeoman farmers. John B. Edmunds, Jr. examines the tremendous problems faced by the governors of South Carolina, the state that would suffer the highest losses. Each of the contributors describes the governor's reaction to undertaking duties never before required of men in their positions—urging men to battle, searching for means to feed and clothe the poor, boosting morale, and defending their state's territories, even against great odds.
Download or read book John Letcher of Virginia written by F. N. Boney and published by University, ala., University of Alabama Press [1966]. This book was released on 1966 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a thorough study of Letcher's personal papers including his diary. Before 1861, Letcher actively opposed secession, but when war came he served the Confederacy more loyally and ably. if less flamboyantly, than many more colorful and noisy southern patriots. The author highlights the drama and poignancy of the governor's dilemma - that of a moderate, sensible man confronted with high responsibilites at a time of crisis. The inner workings of Virginia politics are detailed with exceptional clarity.--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Gathering to Save a Nation written by Stephen D. Engle and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D. Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing victory. In a time of limited federal authority, governors were an essential part of the machine that maintained the Union while it mobilized and sustained the war effort. Charged with the difficult task of raising soldiers from their home states, these governors had to also rally political, economic, and popular support for the conflict, at times against a backdrop of significant local opposition. Engle argues that the relationship between these loyal-state leaders and Lincoln's administration was far more collaborative than previously thought. While providing detailed and engaging portraits of these men, their state-level actions, and their collective cooperation, Engle brings into new focus the era's complex political history and shows how the Civil War tested and transformed the relationship between state and federal governments.
Download or read book The Disintegration of a Confederate State written by Malcolm Cook McMillan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zeb Vance written by Gordon B. McKinney and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized. Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union, but after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter, he joined the army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was viewed as a champion of individual rights and enjoyed great popularity among voters. But McKinney demonstrates that Vance was not as progressive as earlier biographers suggest. Vance was a tireless advocate for white North Carolinians in the Reconstruction Period, and his policies and positions often favored the rich and powerful. McKinney provides significant new information about Vance's third governorship, his senatorial career, and his role in the origins of the modern Democratic Party in North Carolina. This new biography offers the fullest, most complete understanding yet of a legendary North Carolina leader.
Download or read book Edmund J Davis of Texas written by Carl H. Moneyhon and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected the ideals of the nation than those of so many of his contemporaries. Carl H. Moneyhon presents a long overdue favorable account of a man who was determined to make progressive changes and stand in stark opposition to the state’s political elite. What moved this man to take such a dramatic stand against his political peers? Moneyhon strives to answer this very question. Edmund J. Davis was not only a part of the political elite during the Civil War, but he also opposed secession. He refused to follow most of Texas’ leaders and actively opposed the Confederacy by attempting to bring Texas back to the Union. After the war, Davis was a leader in reconstructing the state based on true free labor and pursued progressive and egalitarian policies as governor of Texas. Through the entire reconstruction process Davis faced extreme Confederate hostility. After leaving the governor’s mansion an unpopular man and politician, he still remained dedicated to changing Texas. He worked to change his adopted state until the day he died.
Download or read book The Confederate Congress written by Wilfred Buck Yearns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the Confederate Congress and its relation to the Davis administration and the war effort.
Download or read book Isham G Harris of Tennessee written by Sam Davis Elliott and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isham Green Harris rose to prominence as leader of the southern rights wing of the Democratic Party in the 1850's. During the secession crisis of 1861, he used his influence and constitutional power as governor to trample on the Tennessee constitution in order to align Tennessee with the Confederacy; he tirelessly supported the Confederate war effort. When the war ended, he went into voluntary and temporary exile in Mexico, returning home in late 1867. He eventually became the best known of the state's Bourbon Democrats and was elected United States Senator in 1877, remaining in that office until his death.
Download or read book Lincoln and the War Governors written by William Best Hesseltine and published by New York : A.A. Knopf. This book was released on 1948 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of acc. # 02.0017.
Download or read book The Confederate Records of the State of Georgia Official correspondence of Governor Joseph E Brown 1869 1864 inclusive written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Toole Clark written by R. Matthew Poteat and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Henry Toole Clark, North Carolina's second Civil War governor. In addition to his actions as a war leader, it explores Clark's role as a member of the Old South's planter elite and his change in status after the war, his slaveholding business, the constitutional crisis that made him governor, and his career during the years of Reconstruction.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government African servitude written by Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Confederate States of America and an apologia for the causes that the author believed led to and justified the American Civil War.
Download or read book Andrew Johnson written by Clifton Rumery Hall and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Governors of Alabama written by John Craig Stewart and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography and history of the governors of Alabama from earliest times to the present.
Download or read book Alabama Governors written by Samuel L. Webb and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of biographical essays, written by thirty-four noted historians and political scientists, chronicles the times, careers, challenges, leadership, and legacies of the fifty-seven men and one woman who have served as the state's highest elected official. The book is organized chronologically into six sections that cover Alabama's years as a US territory and its early statehood, the 1840s through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the late nineteenth-century Bourbon era, twentieth-century progressive and wartime governors, the Civil Rights era and George Wallace's period of inf.
Download or read book Wade Hampton written by Rod Andrew Jr. and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses in his family and personal life. Rod Andrew's critical biography sheds light on his central role during Reconstruction as a conservative white leader, governor, U.S. senator, and Redeemer; his heroic image in the minds of white southerners; and his positions and apparent contradictions on race and the role of African Americans in the New South. Andrew also shows that Hampton's tragic past explains how he emerged in his own day as a larger-than-life symbol--of national reconciliation as well as southern defiance.
Download or read book Civil War Correspondence of Florida s Governor John Milton written by M. Edward Hughes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Correspondence of Florida's Governor John Milton includes 49 letters with Pres. Jefferson Davis, 22 with Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, 16 with Gen. Robert E. Lee, 33 with Sec. of War James Seddon along with hundreds of contacts with major Confederate civil war figures.
