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The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood 1865-1895
Although the imagery of belledom looms especially large in writings about the Antebellum South, the actual ideal for women even then had been much more complex and divided. Through the early part of the nineteenth century, the celebration of the…
Tags: Postwar era, the South, Womanhood
Jean Fagan Yellin, Harriet Jacobs: A Life (2004)
She did not know. Papa's pride, Mama's darling, Grandmother's joy -she did not know she was a slave. Not until she was six, and Mama died. And really not even then. But later, when she was willed to Little Miss, she had to find out. Hatty was a…
Tags: Memory, Slave Resistance, Slavery/Slaves
Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South
Archer Jones, "Military Means, Political Ends" (1992)
During the early winter of 1863-64, Grant completed the formulation of a new strategy, one in which the Union would give up its reliance on the persisting strategy of territorial conquest but still pursue its logistic strategy of crippling the…
Brucella Wiggins Jordan, "Ida B. Wells, Catherine Impey, and Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of the Nineteenth Century Anti-Lynching Movement" (2008)
First in Flight: Desertion as Politics in the North Carolina Confederate Army
Tags: Confederacy, desertion
Scott King-Owen "Conditional Confederates: Absenteeism Among Western North Carolina Soldiers 1861-1865" (2011)
Several scholars have determined that western North Carolina men, like Sergeant Wyatt, deserted in larger numbers than their compatriots across the state did. Richard Reid’s 1981 study found a desertion rate of 16 percent for western North…
Tags: Civil War, desertion, North Carolina
William A. Link, North Carolina (2009)
Anne C. Loveland, Southern Evangelicals and the Social Order 1800-1860 (1980)
Chandra Manning, "The Order of Nature Would Be Reversed: Slavery and the North Carolina Gubernatorial Election of 1864" (2008)
Vance’s campaign and election matter because they highlight the role of racial fear in suppressing disaffection, in smoothing the tensions inherent in Confederate patriotism, and in keeping enlisted men committed to the war when the…
Tags: Governor, North Carolina
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D. H. Hill, 1859-1924
Daniel Harvey (D. H.) Hill (1859-1924), the son of Confederate general D. H. Hill, was an important figure in the commemoration of the Civil War and…