God Save the South: 40+ Memoirs of Defiance
Confederate Memoirs, Diaries, and War Narratives on Defeat, Loyalty, and Lost Cause MemoryBy Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Frank H. Alfriend, John Esten Cooke, 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
Length524h 59m
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God Save the South: 40+ Memoirs of Defiance gathers a capacious, contentious body of Confederate-era recollection: military narratives, political testimony, diaries, domestic observations, and retrospective defenses of secession. Its varied styles range from battlefield chronicle and naval report to intimate journal writing and polemical memoir. Accounts of campaigns, imprisonment, supply, civilian hardship, and the collapsing home front make the volume valuable not as a unified history, but as a record of how participants narrated defeat, loyalty, and loss—often through the interpretive lens later called the Lost Cause. The contributors include Confederate leaders, soldiers, diplomats, naval officers, journalists, and civilian witnesses, among them women whose writings preserve the pressures of wartime households and public morale. Their backgrounds span elite command, irregular warfare, urban administration, and everyday Southern life. Read together, these voices illuminate the cultural work of memory in the postwar South: the construction of heroism, the defense of Confederate nationalism, and the selective silences surrounding slavery, race, and emancipation. The collection thus invites historically alert comparison rather than simple assent. Recommended for students and general readers of Civil War memory, this anthology offers an unusually broad primary-source encounter within one volume. Its multiplicity of genres and viewpoints encourages readers to assess testimony critically, trace recurrent myths and disagreements, and place personal recollection beside the war's larger political and moral stakes.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length524 hrs 59 mins
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Publish dateAug 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Rebels' War - 47 Personal Accounts of the Confederacy
2God Save the South: 40+ Memoirs of Defiance
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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