Bitterly Divided: The South's Inner Civil War
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1595581081 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This fast-paced book will be a revelation even to professional historians. Illus. Southerners took up arms against each other, engaged in massacres, guerrilla warfare, vigilante justice and lynchings, and deserted in droves from the Confederate army (300,000 men joined the Union forces). From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Some counties and regions even seceded from the secessionists. All rights reserved. So did women and Indians. Unionist politicians never stopped battling secessionism. . Williams's long overdue work makes indelibly clear that Southerne
E. L. Green said Good facts, conclusions may not apply everywhere. I studied under a professor at a Louisiana university who was doing similar research to Dr. Williams. The facts on the ground in Louisiana were similar to what Dr. Williams describes, but there was not apparently any real Unionist sentiment amongst the poor farmers, who were largely apolitical. Rather, there was the sentiment that their families would starv. A good read with more than enough information Well, to start off this is my first delve into Civil War history since we never got to it in HS and college classes. It was very interesting to read how the South was basically at war with itself, along with the North, during the Civil War, and that it contributed to the final outcome of the war.I think the author was so consumed with trying to prove his po. "Real Eye-Opener" according to C. P. Anderson. Another nail in the coffin of the Lost Cause, this books shows how little united the Confederacy actually was. Did you know, for example, that half a million Southerners fought for the Union? How about that half of Lee's army had deserted *before* Gettysburg?Williams is particularly good at throwing light on why the South was so divided. He traces it all, b
In just one of many telling examples in this rich and eye-opening narrative history, Williams shows that, if the nearly half-million southerners who served in the Union military had been with the Confederates, the opposing forces would have been evenly matched.Shattering the myth of wartime southern unity, this riveting new analysis takes on the enduring power of the Confederacy's image and reveals it to be, like the Confederacy itself, a hollow shell.. The draft law was nearly impossible to enforce, women defied Confederate authorities by staging food riots, and most of the time two-thirds of the Confederate army was absent with or without leave. From the author of the celebrated A People's History of the Civil War, a new account of the Confederacy's collapse from within.The American Confederacy, historian David Williams reveals, was in fact fighting two civil wars—an external one that we hear so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness.From the Confederacy's very beginnings, Williams shows, white southerners were as likely to have oppose
. David Williams is the author of A People's History of the Civil War, Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War, Johnny Reb's War, and Rich Man's War. He is a professor of history at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, where he lives