The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama PDF
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The Yellowhammer war The Yellowhammer war The Civil war and reconstruction in ala bama edited by Kenneth w. Noe published in cooperation with the frances s. summersell center for the study of the south The UNiversiTY of ala bama Press Tuscaloosa Copyright © 2013 The University of ala bama Press Tuscaloosa, ala bama 35487- 0380 all rights reserved manufactured in the United states of america Typeface: Garamond Cover photograph: flag of rucker’s brigade, Company f, 7th ala bama Cavalry, PN- 10171- 10173, Cat. No. 86.1876.1, ala bama Department of archives and history, montgomery Cover design: erin bradley Dangar / Dangar Design ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of ameri can National standard for information sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library materials, aNsi Z39.48- 1984. library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The yellowhammer war : the Civil war and reconstruction in alabama / edited by Kenneth w. Noe. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. isbN 978-0-8173-1808-6 (hardback)—isbN 978-0-8173-8704-4 (e book) 1. alabama—history—Civil war, 1861–1865. 2. reconstruction (U.s. history, 1865–1877)—alabama. i. Noe, Kenneth w., 1957– editor. e551.Y45 2013 976.1'05—dc23 2013017504 Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction Kenneth W. Noe 1 1. Precipitating a Revolution: Ala bama’s Democracy in the Election of 1860 Lonnie A. Burnett 15 2. “The Aggressions of the North Can Be Borne No Longer”: White Ala bam ian Women during the Secession Crisis and Outbreak of War Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño 34 3. Confederate Ala bama’s Finest Hour: The Battle of Salem Church, May 3, 1863 Ben H. Severance 55 4. The Confederate Sun Sets on Selma: Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Defense of Ala bama in 1865 Brian Steel Wills 71 5. Fighting for the Cause? An Examination of the Motivations of Ala bama’s Confederate Soldiers from a Class Perspective Kristopher A. Teters 90 6. Voices from the Margins: Non- Elites in Confederate Ala bama Victoria E. Ott 107 7. Augusta Jane Evans: Ala bama’s Confederate Macaria Jennifer Lynn Gross 125 8. “The Best South ern Patriots”: Jews in Ala bama during the Civil War Patricia A. Hoskins 149 9. Every Man Should Consider His Own Conscience: Black and White Ala bam ians’ Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Harriet E. Amos Doss 165 vi / Contents 10. ala bama’s reconstruction after 150 Years Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins 177 11. of ambition and enterprise: The making of Carpetbagger George e. spencer Terry L. Seip 191 12. “he was always Preaching the Union”: The wartime origins of white republicanism during reconstruction Michael W. Fitzgerald 220 13. labor, law, and the freedmen’s bureau in ala bama, 1865–1867 Jason J. Battles 240 14. freedom’s Church: sociocultural Construction, reconstruction, and Post- reconstruction in Perry County, ala bama’s afr i can ameri can Churches Bertis English 258 suggestions for further reading 281 Contributors 289 index 291 illustrations 3.1. Chancellorsville Campaign 57 3.2. salem Church 61 9.1. market street in montgomery, 1861 166 9.2. Union raids in ala bama during the Civil war 167 acknowledgments The idea for this book emerged in 2007 during preliminary discussions about how ala bama should mark the sesquicentennial of the ameri can Civil war. i remain grateful to former ala bama his tori cal association president anne feathers for her support, as well as to my fellow members of a Civil war committee that she subse- quently established: bob bradley, harriet amos Doss, bertis english, and George rable. Dan ross of the University of alab ama Press expressed early enthusiasm for the project, and we continued to receive support from his successors and staff in Tus- caloosa, especially Jennifer backer, Donna Cox baker, Curtis Clark, Joanna Jacobs, and Dan waterman. we also are grateful to the anonymous readers who offered tough critiques that in the end made this a stronger volume than it would have been otherwise. Publishing increasingly is an expensive endeavor, which made a timely sub- vention from the University of ala bama’s summersell Center for the study of the south exceedingly welcome. i am especially grateful to the center’s director, Joshua rothman. among others deserving mention are leah rawls atkins, Kathryn e. holland braund, Gary burton, mark franklin, Keith hébert, David hughes, and Charles israel. all of the contributors stuck with the project even when its prospects ap- peared slim, but sarah wiggins especially became a champion of the book. i am proud of her friendship. finally, and most important, i am thankful as always for my wife, Nancy, who rode this literary roller coaster with me from first to last. Proverbs 31 teaches that a good wife is better than rubies, but my spouse is also stronger than the oak trees out on farmville road.
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