When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865Univ of North Carolina Press, 2000 M11 9 - 328 páginas Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it was the answer to a prayer. But as Stephen Ash argues, for all, invasion and occupation were essential parts of the experience of defeat that helped shape the southern postwar mentality. When the Yankees Came is the first comprehensive study of the occupied South, bringing to light a wealth of new information about the southern home front. Among the intriguing topics Ash explores are guerrilla warfare and other forms of civilian resistance; the evolution of Union occupation policy from leniency to repression; the impact of occupation on families, churches, and local government; and conflicts between southern aristocrats and poor whites. In analyzing these topics, Ash examines events from the perspective not only of southerners but also of the northern invaders, and he shows how the experiences of southerners differed according to their distance from a garrisoned town. |
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... John Brown's raid and the election of a Republican , Abraham Lin- coln , to the presidency . The raid on Harpers Ferry , Virginia , proved to the satisfaction of most Southerners that Northern abolitionists had abandoned their war of ...
... John Brown's raid and the election of a Republican , Abraham Lin- coln , to the presidency . The raid on Harpers Ferry , Virginia , proved to the satisfaction of most Southerners that Northern abolitionists had abandoned their war of ...
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... John Brown's beckoning ; but in pri- vate , they worried that the next John Brown would ignite a revolution.22 There was a curious personal twist to white racial anxieties . Those who owned slaves ( about one white family out of four in ...
... John Brown's beckoning ; but in pri- vate , they worried that the next John Brown would ignite a revolution.22 There was a curious personal twist to white racial anxieties . Those who owned slaves ( about one white family out of four in ...
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... John Brown's raid , and ... these Northern troops will be apt to follow [ Brown's ] footsteps . " 1 Indeed , tocsins clanged all along the Potomac's south shore in those first weeks of war , for northern Virginia was the North's ...
... John Brown's raid , and ... these Northern troops will be apt to follow [ Brown's ] footsteps . " 1 Indeed , tocsins clanged all along the Potomac's south shore in those first weeks of war , for northern Virginia was the North's ...
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... John Brown had begun.17 Especially noteworthy is the fact that women in great numbers de- clined to flee despite rumors that the Northern soldiers intended to rape their way through the South . Older women , in particular , often man ...
... John Brown had begun.17 Especially noteworthy is the fact that women in great numbers de- clined to flee despite rumors that the Northern soldiers intended to rape their way through the South . Older women , in particular , often man ...
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... John A. Dix as he readied a force to invade Virginia's eastern shore in November 1861 ; " ... by giving them the strongest assurances of kind treatment and pro- tection . . . they may be gained over without bloodshed . ” 35 66 Such ...
... John A. Dix as he readied a force to invade Virginia's eastern shore in November 1861 ; " ... by giving them the strongest assurances of kind treatment and pro- tection . . . they may be gained over without bloodshed . ” 35 66 Such ...
Contenido
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Civilian Resistance and the Transformation of Northern War Aims | 38 |
The Garrisoned Towns the Confederate Frontier and NoMansLand | 76 |
The Ordeal of the Unionists | 108 |
The Struggle against Black Freedom | 149 |
Plain Folk Aristocrats and the Challenge to the Old Order | 170 |
Family and Community in the Maelstrom of War | 195 |
Warweariness and the Collapse of Resistance | 214 |
Summer 1865 | 229 |
Map Appendix | 237 |
Notes | 243 |
Bibliography | 283 |
Index | 303 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 Stephen V. Ash Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 Stephen V. Ash Vista de fragmentos - 1995 |
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