Confederates Against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty
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“Wakelyn's study sheds valuable light on this important group of leaders as well as compels scholars to reconsider the entire political foundation of the Confederacy.”–
“[W]akelyn usefully reminds historians about the many divisions within the Confederate leadership, and he correctly reasserts the importance of the connection between slavery and the political decisions made by Southern leaders.”–
“Wakelyn, the author of several books on the US Civil War, argues that leaders in the slave states disloyal to the cause of the Confederacy were not a monolithic group. The author analyzes the motivations and policies of three groups of dissenting prominent Southern politicians, some of whom served in the Confederate Congress: Southern loyalists to the Union, conditional Successionists, and committed-from-the-beginning Successionists. He also discusses how the Southern Episcopal Church contributed to both the Confederate unity and division.”–
Book Description
Far from being a monolith with unanimous leadership loyalty to the cause of a separate nation, the Confederacy was in reality deeply divided over how to achieve independence. Many supposedly loyal leaders, civilian as well as elected officials, opposed governmental policies on the national and state levels, and their actions ultimately influenced non-support for military policies. Congressional differences over arming the slaves and bureaucratic squabbles over how to conduct the war disrupted the government and Cabinet of President Jefferson Davis. Rumors of such irreconcilable differences spread throughout the South, contributing to an overall decline in morale and support for the war effort and causing the Confederacy to come apart from within.
Confederates Against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty
Confederates Against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty,Jon L. Wakelyn,Praeger Publishers,0275973646,Confederate States of America,History,History - U.S.,History: American,Military policy,Political activity,Politicians,Politics and government,Social conditions,Unionists (United States Civil War),United States - Civil War,Upper class,History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877),USA,World history: c 1750 to c 1900
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