South vs. the South How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War

Name: South vs. the South How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780195156294

ISBN-10: 0195156293

ISBN-13: 9780195156294

Edition: 2002

Authors: William W. Freehling

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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 this question. 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 more joined the Union army (or simply stayed home) than marched off in Confederate gray. If they had enlisted as rebel…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.31" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Preface



The Other House Divided



The Union's Task



Fault Lines in the Pre--Civil War South



The Secession Crisis



Southern White Anti-Confederates



From Neutrality to Unionism



The Jackpot



Southern Black Anti-Confederates



The Delay



The Collaboration



The Harvest



Last Full Measure



The Last Best Hope



The Taproot and Its Blight


Notes


Index