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Author Freehling, William W., 1935-

Title The South vs. the South : how anti-Confederate southerners shaped the course of the Civil War / William W. Freehling
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents PART ONE: THE OTHER HOUSE DIVIDED: The Union's task -- Fault lines in the pre-Civil War South -- The secession crisis -- PART TWO: SOUTHERN WHITE ANTI-CONFEDERATES: From neutrality to unionism -- The jackpot -- PART THREE: SOUTHERN BLACK ANTI-CONFEDERATES: The delay -- The collaboration -- The harvest -- PART FOUR: LAST FULL MEASURE: The last best hope -- The taproot and its blight
Summary Annotation Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, for example, or the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, one of America's leading authorities on the Civil War era offers an entirely new answer to thisquestion. William Freehling argues that anti-Confederate Southerners--specifically, border state whites and southern blacks--helped cost the Confederacy the war. White men in such border states as Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, Freehling points out, were divided in their loyalties--but far morejoined the Union army (or simply stayed home) than marched off in Confederate gray. If they had enlisted as rebel troops in the same proportion as white men did farther south, their numbers would have offset all the Confederate casualties during four years of war. In addition, when those statesstayed loyal, the vast majority of the South's urban population and industrial capacity remained in Union hands. And many forget, Freehling writes, that the slaves' own decisions led to a series of white decisions (culminating in the Emancipation Proclamation) that turned federal forces into an armyof liberation, depriving the South of labor and adding essential troops to the blue ranks. Whether revising our conception of slavery or of Abraham Lincoln, or establishing the antecedents of Martin Luther King, or analyzing Union military strategy, or uncovering new meanings in what is arguably America's greatest piece of sculpture, Augustus St.-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial, Freehlingwrites with piercing insight and rhetorical verve. Concise and provocative, The South Vs. the South will forever change the way we view the Civil War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230) and index
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Subject United States. Army -- Southern unionists.
United States. Army
Enslaved persons -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Unionists (United States Civil War)
White people -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
HISTORY.
African Americans -- Politics and government
Armed Forces -- Southern unionists
Politics and government
Social aspects
Social conditions
Unionists (United States Civil War)
White people -- Politics and government
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Unionisme.
Dissidenten.
Confederate States of America -- Politics and government.
Confederate States of America -- Social conditions.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
Southern States
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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