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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822370303321

Autore

Gallagher Gary W

Titolo

Becoming Confederates : paths to a new national loyalty / / Gary W. Gallagher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-46420-3

0-8203-4497-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Collana

Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; ; no. 54

Disciplina

973.7/13

Soggetti

Patriotism - Confederate States of America

Change of allegiance - United States

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Conduct must conform to the new order of things: R.E. Lee and the question of loyalty -- He died as became a Confederate soldier: Stephen Dodson Ramseur's easy embrace of the Confederacy -- Consistent conservative: Jubal A. Early's patriotic submission -- For his country and his duty: Confederate national sentiment beyond Appomattox.

Sommario/riassunto

In Becoming Confederates , Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early-three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many ways leading up to and during the war. Looking at levels of allegiance to their native state, to the slaveholding South, to the United States, and to the Confederacy, Gallagher shows how these men represent responses to the mid-nineteenthcentury crisis. Lee traditionally has been presented as a rel