LEADER 04903nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910974589803321 005 20251117120127.0 010 $a0-8262-6225-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005243 035 $a(OCoLC)613389650 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10001686 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000203629 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11181124 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000203629 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10132628 035 $a(PQKB)10580384 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570658 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570658 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10001686 035 $a(OCoLC)57410789 035 $a(BIP)11493853 035 $a(BIP)6389977 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005243 100 $a20000105d2000 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMissouri's Confederate $eClaiborne Fox Jackson and the creation of southern identity in the border West /$fChristopher Phillips 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 225 1 $aMissouri biography series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8262-1272-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-323) and index. 327 $aIntro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- THE ROOTLESS -- A SLAVEHOLDERSI DEMOCRACY -- A MOST ENLIGHTENED MAN OF BUSINESS -- THE POLITICS OF PLENTY -- CROSSROADS -- THE WIREGPULLER -- LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR -- THE CRIME AGAINST MISSOURI -- INTERMEZZO -- WALL OF FIRE -- AVATAR -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX. 330 $a Claiborne Fox Jackson (1806-1862) remains one of Missouri's most controversial historical figures. Elected Missouri's governor in 1860 after serving as a state legislator and Democratic party chief, Jackson was the force behind a movement for the neutral state's secession before a federal sortie exiled him from office. Although Jackson's administration was replaced by a temporary government that maintained allegiance to the Union, he led a rump assembly that drafted an ordinance of secession in October 1861 and spearheaded its acceptance by the Confederate Congress. Despite the fact that the majority of the state's populace refused to recognize the act, the Confederacy named Missouri its twelfth state the following month. A year later Jackson died in exile in Arkansas, an apparent footnote to the war that engulfed his region and that consumed him. In this first full-length study of Claiborne Fox Jackson, Christopher Phillips offers much more than a traditional biography. His extensive analysis of Jackson's rise to power through the tangle that was Missouri's antebellum politics and of Jackson's complex actions in pursuit of his state's secession complete the deeper and broader story of regional identity--one that began with a growing defense of the institution of slavery and which crystallized during and after the bitter, internecine struggle in the neutral border state during the American Civil War. Placing slavery within the realm of western democratic expansion rather than of plantation agriculture in border slave states such as Missouri, Philips argues that southern identity in the region was not born, but created. While most rural Missourians were proslavery, their "southernization" transcended such boundaries, with southern identity becoming a means by which residents sought to reestablish local jurisdiction in defiance of federal authority during and after the war. This identification, intrinsically political and thus ideological, centered--and still centers--upon the events surrounding the Civil War, whether in Missouri or elsewhere. By positioning personal and political struggles and triumphs within Missourians' shifting identity and the redefinition of their collective memory, Phillips reveals the complex process by which these once Missouri westerners became and remain Missouri southerners. Missouri's Confederate not only provides a fascinating depiction of Jackson and his world but also offers the most complete scholarly analysis of Missouri's maturing antebellum identity. Anyone with an interest in the Civil War, the American West, or the American South will find this important new biography a powerful contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century America and the origins--as well as the legacy--of the Civil War. 410 0$aMissouri biography series. 606 $aGovernors$zMissouri$vBiography 607 $aMissouri$xPolitics and government$y1861-1865 615 0$aGovernors 676 $a977.8/03 700 $aPhillips$b Christopher$f1959-$0741505 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974589803321 996 $aMissouri's Confederate$94471684 997 $aUNINA