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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784672603321

Autore

Wood Benjamin <1820-1900.>

Titolo

Copperhead gore [[electronic resource] ] : Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America / / edited and with an introduction by Menahem Blondheim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2006

ISBN

9786612072772

0-253-11190-0

1-282-07277-3

1-4337-0847-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlondheimMenahem <1954->

Disciplina

813/.4

Soggetti

Pacifism

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; preface; Introduction; FORT LAFAYETTE; OR,LOVE AND SECESSION; Appendix 1. Speech 1: "State of the Union,"Benjamin Wood, 16 May 1862; Appendix 2. Speech 2: "Restoration of Peace: On the proposition for ageneral convention to devise measures for the restoration ofpeace to our country,"Benjamin Wood, 27 February 1863; Glossary and Explanatory Notes toFort Lafayette;  or, Love and Secession

Sommario/riassunto

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin has often been cited for its                galvanizing effect on anti-slavery opposition in the years before the American Civil                War. Southern sympathizers in the North (known as Copperheads) never came close to                producing anything that matched its influence. One of the more interesting attempts                was Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession (1862). The novel -- which features                liberal doses of love and lust, intrigue and violence, loyalty and death -- is by no                means great literatu