The Confederacy: History, Documents, Memoirs and Biographies
Confederate Documents, Memoirs, and the Making of Lost Cause MemoryBy John Esten Cooke, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Frank H. Alfriend, Heros von Borcke
Length145h 14m
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The Confederacy: History, Documents, Memoirs and Biographies assembles official testimony, military recollection, biographical narrative, and retrospective historical prose to examine the Confederate experiment and the American Civil War. Its juxtaposition of political documents with accounts of campaigns, command, hardship, and memory reveals both the immediacy of wartime writing and the later construction of Confederate remembrance. Read critically, the volume illuminates the rhetoric of secession, military leadership, and defeat while also exposing the silences and ideological pressures that shaped its sources. The contributors include Confederate political and military leaders, a journalist-historian, and a European volunteer, whose differing positions furnish overlapping yet contested views of the conflict. Their writings belong to the nineteenth-century memorial culture often associated with the Lost Cause, a tradition that sought to dignify Confederate sacrifice while frequently minimizing slavery's centrality to secession and war. Bringing these voices together enables readers to assess how authority, regional loyalty, eyewitness experience, and postwar commemoration informed historical narration. This collection is valuable for students and general readers seeking a concentrated archive of Confederate self-representation. It rewards attentive comparison across genres and perspectives, inviting readers to distinguish document from interpretation and memory from evidence. Its breadth makes it especially useful for studying Civil War historiography, political rhetoric, and the enduring debates surrounding the Confederacy's legacy.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length145 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 13, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Federalist & The Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Collection
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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