03211nam 2200685 a 450 991080776390332120230828223911.0979-88-908797-7-60-8078-7734-4(CKB)1000000000467159(EBL)837902(OCoLC)82369009(SSID)ssj0000272132(PQKBManifestationID)11207172(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272132(PQKBWorkID)10296365(PQKB)10791074(Au-PeEL)EBL837902(CaPaEBR)ebr10273404(CaONFJC)MIL930490(MiAaPQ)EBC837902(EXLCZ)99100000000046715920060109d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWilliam Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War /Eric H. WaltherChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20061 online resource (492 p.)Civil War AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-2842-2 0-8078-3027-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and index.Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater.Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew up believing that abolitionists were cruel, meddling, and hypocritical. His personal journey led him through a series of mentors who transformed his political views, and upon moving to frontier Alabama in his twenties, Yancey's penchant for rhetCivil War America.LegislatorsAlabamaBiographySecessionAlabamaStatesmenConfederate States of AmericaBiographyLegislatorsUnited StatesBiographyAlabamaPolitics and governmentTo 1865Confederate States of AmericaPolitics and governmentUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865CausesLegislatorsSecessionStatesmenLegislators973.7/13092BWalther Eric H.1960-1660271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807763903321William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War4015370UNINA