Diehard Rebels The Confederate Culture of Invincibility

Name: Diehard Rebels The Confederate Culture of Invincibility
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ISBN: 9780820334332

ISBN-10: 0820334332

ISBN-13: 9780820334332

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jason Phillips

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Well into the final months of the Civil War, countless Confederate soldiers earnestly believed that victory lay just around the corner. How could this be? Jason Phillips reveals the deeply ingrained attitudes that shaped the reality of these diehards not only during the war but in the subsequent era, when the myth of the Lost Cause was born.Much is known about what Confederate soldiers fought for; far less is understood about why they fought on despite long odds and terrible costs. Drawing on soldiers' letters and diary entries from 1863 to 1865, Diehard Rebels explains how religious dogma and perceptions of Union barbarity and ineptitude affirmed in many soldiers a view of an indomitable…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 1/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Southern Invincibility and Confederate Defeat



The Smile of Providence: Confederate Religion and Invincibility



The Mask of Cain: Enemy Images in Rebel Minds



Without a Murmur: Confederate Endurance and the Immediate War



Gray Grapevines: Rumors and the Distant War



The Face of Surrender: Diehard Rebels in 1865


Conclusion: The Aftermath of Invincibility


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index