03224nam 2200625Ia 450 991045198660332120200520144314.00-8078-7593-7(CKB)1000000000456661(EBL)413357(OCoLC)476237102(SSID)ssj0000276241(PQKBManifestationID)11954810(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276241(PQKBWorkID)10223215(PQKB)11554905(MiAaPQ)EBC413357(Au-PeEL)EBL413357(CaPaEBR)ebr10116536(CaONFJC)MIL929997(EXLCZ)99100000000045666120031229d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrZeb Vance[electronic resource] North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader /Gordon B. McKinneyChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (496 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-0731-X 0-8078-2865-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-465) and index.Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 What Manner of Man?; 2 A Mountain Boyhood; 3 Scholar and Suitor; 4 Lawyer and Apprentice Politician; 5 Congressman; 6 Secession Crisis; 7 Colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment; 8 Campaign for Governor; 9 Building a Strong North Carolina; 10 Relations with the Confederate Government; 11 Growing Challenges; 12 Protest; 13 Challenges to the Compromise; 14 Campaign for Reelection; 15 Returned to Office; 16 Defeat with Honor; 17 Prisoner; 18 The Politics of Reconstruction; 19 Frustrated Politician; 20 The Battle of Giants; 21 Governor Again22 United States Senator23 Party Leader; 24 Farmers' Alliance and Reelection; 25 Decline; 26 Monuments and the Man; Notes; IndexIn this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized. Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union, but after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter, he joined the army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was viewed as a champion of individual rights and enjoyed great popularity among voters. But McKinney demonstrates that Vance was not as progreLegislatorsUnited StatesBiographyGovernorsNorth CarolinaBiographyNorth CarolinaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865North CarolinaPolitics and government1861-1865North CarolinaPolitics and government1865-1950Electronic books.LegislatorsGovernors975.6/03BMcKinney Gordon B.1943-872960MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451986603321Zeb Vance1948725UNINA