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The Confederate homefront : a history in documents / Wallace Hettle.
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Hettle, Wallace, 1962-
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English
Published/Created
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
Description
xviii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
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E487 .H58 2017
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Confederate States of America
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History
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United States
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Civil War, 1861-1865
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Summary note
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.
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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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