The Confederate homefront : a history in documents / Wallace Hettle.

Compiler
Hettle, Wallace, 1962- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
Description
xviii, 214 pages ; 22 cm

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    Wallace Hettle's The Confederate Homefront provides a sample of the enormous documentary record on the domestic population of the Confederate states, offering a glimpse of what it was like to live through a brutal war fought almost entirely on southern soil. The Confederate Homefront collects excerpts from slave narratives, poems, diaries and journals, along with brief introductions that examine the circumstances and biases of each source. The first documentary history to foreground the experiences of Confederate civilians, The Confederate Homefront illuminates the overlooked lives of non-combatants in the Civil War and bears witness to the traumatic final years of the institution of American slavery. -- Back cover.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1861
    • 1. "Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union": Mississippi secedes
    • 2. A slave reacts to the election of Lincoln
    • 3. Slavery: The cornerstone of the Confederacy
    • 4. Charleston and the first shot of the war
    • 5. Fear of a slave rebellion in Mississipppi (two documents)
    • 6. A slave's view of religion, emancipation, and Abraham Lincoln
    • 7. The Union reacts to runaway slaves (two documents)
    • 8. A newspaper editor reluctantly supports secession
    • 9. A North Carolina minister endorses the war
    • 10. A Southern woman embraces the Confederate cause
    • 11. Mark Twain's "Campaign that failed"
    • 12. A slave debates politics with her owners
    • 13. A white family weighs the consequences of war
    • 14. South Carolina planters abandon the coastline
    • 1862
    • 15. "Prayers for freedom": An ex-slave remembers the war
    • 16. Conscription and the Confederacy: A view from South Carolina
    • 17. A Louisiana family flees from the Union army
    • 18. The prison diary of a Tennessee Unionist
    • 19. The governor of Georgia denounces the draft
    • 20. The Union's attack on Richmond in 1862: a view from within the city
    • 21. The arrest of a Virginia dissenter
    • 22. A black abolitionist on teaching former slaves
    • 23. Andrew Johnson and political conflict in Tennessee (two documents)
    • 24. Remembering the death of a Confederate soldier
    • 25. Domestic slavery and the Confederate cause
    • 26. The amazing escape of Robert Smalls, a slave and steamboat pilot
    • 27. Confederate women and Union troops in occupied New Orleans
    • 28. A slave's "faithfulness and devotion"
    • 29. Union occupation and plantation labor in the Mississippi Valley
    • 1863
    • 30. A civilian on the death of a soldier
    • 31. Anti-Semitism in the Confederacy
    • 32. A bread riot in Richmond (four documents)
    • 33. A Louisiana woman describes the arrival of Union troops
    • 34. The Confederate public mourns a hero
    • 35. The mysterious death of a slave woman
    • 36. Runaway slave advertisements
    • 37. A Confederate partisan on the aftermath of battle
    • 38. A Confederate governor on the war at home
    • 39. An Alabama "Belle" leaves home
    • 40. Masters and slaves in occupied Mississippi
    • 41. A political prisoner writes to Abraham Lincoln
    • 42. Union soldiers loot Jefferson Davis's possessions
    • 43. A former soldier begins to farm (three documents)
    • 44. A prisoner of war encounters Southern women
    • 45. The Confederate war department and the impressment of slaves
    • 46. William T. Sherman and hard war ---47. A refugee bemoans the brutality of the war
    • 1864
    • 48. A Southern woman's despair
    • 49. Confederate emancipation: a proposal
    • 50. "This is our country": a meeting of former slaves
    • 51. "You got my hog!": a theft by Confederate slaves
    • 52. Jefferson Davis's fugitive slave
    • 53. A former slave describes a death in his master's family
    • 54. A Southern publisher on the consequences of surrender
    • 55. An editoral praises the restraint of black soldiers
    • 56. The transition from slavery to free labor in the Mississippi Valley
    • 57. A former Mississippi slave describes a failed escape attempt
    • 58. Jefferson Davis addresses the public
    • 1865
    • 59. A Texas newspaper lacks news
    • 60. Confederate emancipation (three documents)
    • 61. A South Carolina writer describes the burning of Columbia
    • 62. A former slave remembers emancipation
    • 63. A white officer describes freedmen who fought in the Union Army
    • 64. "How freedom came"
    • 65. Booker T. Washington recalls slavery and freedom
    • 66. "My unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule": Edmund Ruffin's suicide.
    ISBN
    • 9780807165720 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0807165727 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780807167557 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 080716755X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016041481
    OCLC
    958422202
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