The South vs. the South : how anti-Confederate southerners shaped the course of the Civil War /

The South vs. the South : how anti-Confederate southerners shaped the course of the Civil War /

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Author / Creator:	Freehling, William W., 1935-
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Army -- Southern unionists. United States. -- Army. Slaves -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. Unionists (United States Civil War) Whites -- Southern States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. African Americans -- Politics and government. Armed Forces -- Southern unionists. Politics and government. Social aspects. Social conditions. Unionists (United States Civil War) Whites -- Politics and government. 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. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11137298

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ISBN:	9780198029908 019802990X 9780195156294 0195156293 9780195127164 0195127161 9780199832071 0199832072 0195130278 9780195130270
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Freehling, William W., 1935- South vs. the South. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001 0195127161 0195130278

Table of 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.