REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents
Memoirs, Documents, and Lost Cause MemoryBy John Esten Cooke, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Frank H. Alfriend, Heros von Borcke
Length145h 15m
About this audiobook
REBEL YELL assembles memoir, biography, military recollection, political testimony, and official documentation into a capacious record of the Confederate experiment and its leading figures. Its varied forms move from battlefield narration and command-level reflection to institutional records, allowing readers to compare public justification with private memory. The volume is especially valuable for revealing how accounts of strategy, loyalty, defeat, and Southern identity were fashioned during and after the Civil War. The contributors include Confederate political and military leaders alongside chroniclers and interpreters of the cause. Their perspectives emerge from the slaveholding republic's secession crisis, wartime administration, and the postwar culture of commemoration that helped shape Lost Cause memory. A European observer's military impressions further complicate the collection's national frame. Read together, these voices illuminate both the internal convictions of Confederate elites and the rhetorical labor through which their actions were later explained, defended, and memorialized. This volume will reward students of Civil War history, memory studies, military history, and Southern literature. It offers an unusual opportunity to read documents and retrospective narratives in productive tension, tracing how authority, experience, and ideology intersect. Readers should approach its testimony critically, especially regarding slavery and secession, while valuing the breadth of evidence it provides.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length145 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880 (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2INTRODUCTION
3PART I BEFORE SECESSION
4CHAPTER I - CAUSES OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
5CHAPTER II - NEGRO SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE-TRADE
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6CHAPTER III - THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY
7CHAPTER IV - THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
8CHAPTER V - THE COMPROMISE MEASURES
9CHAPTER VI - POLITICS IN MISSISSIPPI
10CHAPTER VII - THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA TROUBLES
11CHAPTER VIII - THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT
12CHAPTER IX - THE JOHN BROWN RAID
13CHAPTER X - A RETROSPECT
14CHAPTER XI - PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE
15CHAPTER XII - THE CLOSE OF 1860
16CHAPTER XIII - SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA
17CHAPTER XIV - GENERAL PRINCIPLES
18CHAPTER XV - THE RIGHT OF SECESSION
19PART II SECESSION AND CONFEDERATION
20CHAPTER I - EARLY DAYS OF SECESSION
21CHAPTER II - FORT SUMTER
22CHAPTER III - PROGRESS OF SECESSION
23CHAPTER IV - THE CONFEDERATE CABINET AND CONGRESS
24CHAPTER V - SOME NORTHERN PROTESTS
25CHAPTER VI - THE CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION
26CHAPTER VII - NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
27CHAPTER VIII - BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER
28PART III THE WAR
29CHAPTER I - SOUTH CAROLINA, MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA
30CHAPTER II - CONFEDERATE PREPARATIONS FOR DEFENCE
31CHAPTER III - ORGANIZATION OF OUR RESOURCES
32CHAPTER IV - FEDERAL OPPRESSIONS IN MARYLAND
33CHAPTER V - THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS
34CHAPTER VI - NEUTRALITY OF KENTUCKY
35CHAPTER VII - THE CONTEST IN MISSOURI
36CHAPTER VIII - GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON
37CHAPTER IX - FEDERAL OUTRAGES IN MISSOURI
38CHAPTER X - MISSOURI DISARMED
39CHAPTER XI - MILITARY OPERATIONS IN MISSOURI
40CHAPTER XII - CONFEDERATE AID TO MISSOURI
41CHAPTER XIII - OPERATIONS OF GENERALS WISE, FLOYD, AND LEE
42CHAPTER XIV - ARREST OF MASON AND SLIDELL
43CHAPTER XV - OUR DEFICIENT ORDNANCE SUPPLIES
44CHAPTER XVI - THE CONFEDERATE FINANCIAL SYSTEM
45CHAPTER XVII - REFORMS IN THE MILITARY LEGISLATION
46CHAPTER XVIII - FEDERAL HOSTILITIES AND USURPATIONS
47CHAPTER XIX - FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON SURRENDERED
48CHAPTER XX - TRANS-MISSISSIPPI MILITARY OPERATIONS
49CHAPTER XXI - THE BATTLE OF SHILOH
50CHAPTER XXII - FURTHER MILITARY EVENTS IN THE WEST
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