A Rebels' War - 47 Personal Accounts of the Confederacy
Forty-Seven Confederate Voices on Battle, Home, Defeat, and Civil War MemoryBy Frank H. Alfriend, Jefferson Davis, John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee, George Cary Eggleston, James Longstreet, John Singleton Mosby, Edward M. Boykin, Heros von Borcke, John Beauchamp Jones, Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Isaac Hermann, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, William Watson, Daniel P. Smith, Eliza Frances Andrews, James Carson Elliott, Thomas D. Duncan, David E. Johnston, Francis Warrington Dawson, John A. Sloan, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Henry Lane Stone, Basil Wilson Duke, Fannie A. Beers, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, Rufus H. Peck, Edward Alexander Moore, Raphael Semmes, Cole Younger, William Meade Dame, Caleb Huse, William G. Stevenson, Myrta Lockett Avary, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Gibbs French, Richard L. Maury, J. Wilkinson, Luther W. Hopkins, John Porter Fort, John Milton Hubbard, John Call Dalton, James H. Wood, Frank M. Myers
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A Rebels' War assembles forty-seven personal accounts of the Confederacy, placing battlefield recollection beside diary, memoir, political testimony, naval narrative, and reflections on civilian life. Its varied prose ranges from formal military reportage to intimate domestic observation, revealing how war was experienced, remembered, and subsequently narrated by Confederate participants. Campaign accounts, prison and espionage episodes, and striking records of the home front together illuminate both the immediacy of conflict and the retrospective shaping of Confederate memory. The contributors include soldiers, commanders, public officials, sailors, journalists, women diarists, and civilians whose positions within Confederate society differed sharply. Their writings emerge from the military crisis of secession and the Civil War, but also from the postwar culture of commemoration in which many former Confederates explained defeat, sacrifice, emancipation, and social upheaval through partisan frameworks. Read collectively, these voices document the breadth of Confederate experience while inviting critical attention to the racial politics, silences, and Lost Cause-inflected assumptions that often structure such testimony. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking a capacious primary-source encounter with the Confederacy. Its many styles and perspectives encourage comparison between public rhetoric and private feeling, military ambition and civilian endurance, memory and historical evidence. Students and general readers alike will find it a rich basis for examining how individuals made meaning from a war that transformed the United States.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length525 hrs
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Publish dateAug 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War (Annotated)
2A Rebels’ War - 47 Personal Accounts of the Confederacy
3The Life of Jefferson Davis & History of the Confederate States of America
4The Work of Jefferson Davis:
5A Short History of the Confederate States of America
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6INTRODUCTION
7PART I BEFORE SECESSION
8CHAPTER I CAUSES OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
9CHAPTER II NEGRO SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE-TRADE
10CHAPTER III THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY
11CHAPTER IV THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
12CHAPTER V THE COMPROMISE MEASURES
13CHAPTER VI POLITICS IN MISSISSIPPI
14CHAPTER VII THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA TROUBLES
15CHAPTER VIII THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT
16CHAPTER IX THE JOHN BROWN RAID
17CHAPTER X A RETROSPECT
18CHAPTER XI PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE
19CHAPTER XII THE CLOSE OF 1860
20CHAPTER XIII SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA
21CHAPTER XIV GENERAL PRINCIPLES
22CHAPTER XV THE RIGHT OF SECESSION
23PART II SECESSION AND CONFEDERATION
24CHAPTER I EARLY DAYS OF SECESSION
25CHAPTER II FORT SUMTER
26CHAPTER III PROGRESS OF SECESSION
27CHAPTER IV THE CONFEDERATE CABINET AND CONGRESS
28CHAPTER V SOME NORTHERN PROTESTS
29CHAPTER VI THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION
30CHAPTER VII NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
31CHAPTER VIII BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER
32PART III THE WAR
33CHAPTER I SOUTH CAROLINA, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA
34CHAPTER II CONFEDERATE PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE
35CHAPTER III ORGANIZATION OF OUR RESOURCES
36CHAPTER IV FEDERAL OPPRESSIONS IN MARYLAND
37CHAPTER V THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS
38CHAPTER VI NEUTRALITY OF KENTUCKY
39CHAPTER VII THE CONTEST IN MISSOURI
40CHAPTER VIII GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON
41CHAPTER IX FEDERAL OUTRAGES IN MISSOURI
42CHAPTER X MISSOURI DISARMED
43CHAPTER XI MILITARY OPERATIONS IN MISSOURI
44CHAPTER XII CONFEDERATE AID TO MISSOURI
45CHAPTER XIII OPERATIONS OF GENERALS WISE, FLOYD, AND LEE
46CHAPTER XIV ARREST OF MASON AND SLIDELL
47CHAPTER XV OUR DEFICIENT ORDNANCE SUPPLIES
48CHAPTER XVI THE CONFEDERATE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
49CHAPTER XVII REFORMS IN THE MILITARY LEGISLATION
50CHAPTER XVIII FEDERAL HOSTILITIES AND USURPATIONS
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