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Ersatz in the Confederacy

Author : Mary Elizabeth Massey
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362445
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Ersatz in the Confederacy written by Mary Elizabeth Massey and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by the University of South Carolina in 1952, Ersatz in the Confederacy remains the definitive study of the South's desperate struggle to overcome critical shortages of food, medicine, clothing, household goods, farming supplies, and tools during the Civil War. Mary Elizabeth Massey's seminal work carefully documents the ingenuity of the Confederates as they coped with shortages of manufactured goods and essential commodities—including grain, coffee, sugar, and butter—that previously had been imported from the northern states or from England. Creative Southerners substituted sawdust for soap, pigs' tails and ears for Christmas tree ornaments, leaves for mattress stuffing, okra seeds for coffee beans, and gourds for cups. Women made clothing from scraps of material, blankets from carpets, shoes from leather saddles and furniture, and battle flags from wedding dresses. Despite the Confederates' penchant for "making do" and "doing without," Massey's research reveals the devastating impact of war's shortages on the South's civilian population. Overly optimistic that they could easily transform a rural economy into a self-sufficient manufacturing power, Southerners suffered from both disappointment and hardship as it became clear that their expectations were unrealistic. Ersatz in the Confederacy's lasting significance lies in Masseys clearly documented conclusion that despite the resourcefulness of the Southern people, the Confederate cause was lost not at Gettysburg nor in any other military engagement but much earlier and more decisively in the homefront battle against scarcity and deprivation.

Ersatz in the Confederacy

Author : Mary Elizabeth Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758115843
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Ersatz in the Confederacy written by Mary Elizabeth Massey and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in the Civil War

Author : Mary Elizabeth Massey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282131
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Women in the Civil War written by Mary Elizabeth Massey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given by the Madeley Estate.

Weary of War

Author : Joe A. Mobley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313083525
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Weary of War written by Joe A. Mobley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a fresh look at a crucial aspect of the American Civil War, this new study explores the day-to-day life of people in the Confederate States of America as they struggled to cope with a crisis that spared no one, military or civilian. Mobley touches on the experiences of everyone on the home front-white and black, male and female, rich and poor, young and old, native and foreign born. He looks at health, agriculture, industry, transportation, refugees city life, religion, education, culture families, personal relationships, and public welfare. In so doing, he offers his perspective on how much the will of the people contributed to the final defeat of the Southern cause. Although no single experience was common to all Southerners, a great many suffered poverty, dislocation, and heartbreak. For African Americans, however, the war brought liberation from slavery and the promise of a new life. White women, too, saw their lives transformed as wartime challenges gave them new responsibilities and experiences. Mobley explains how the Confederate military draft, heavy taxes, and restrictions on personal freedoms led to widespread dissatisfaction and cries for peace among Southern folk. He describes the Confederacy as a region of divided loyalties, where pro-Union and pro-Confederate neighbors sometimes clashed violently. This readable, one-volume account of life behind the lines will prove particularly useful for students of the conflict.

Rich Man's War

Author : David Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340790
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Rich Man's War written by David Williams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat. This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing numbers of oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against Confederate authority, undermining the fight for independence. After the war, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent a class revolution. Trapped by racism and poverty, the poor remained in virtual economic slavery, still dominated by an almost unchanged planter elite. The publication of this book was supported by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.

Civil Wars

Author : George C. Rable
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025205444X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Civil Wars written by George C. Rable and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable uncovers the details of how women fit into the South's complex social order and how Southern social assumptions shaped their attitudes toward themselves, their families, and society as a whole. He reveals a bafflingly intricate social order and the ways the South's surprisingly diverse women shaped their own lives and minds despite strict boundaries. Paying particular attention to women during the Civil War, Roble illuminates their thoughts on the conflict and the threats and challenges they faced and looks at their place in both the economy and politics of the Confederacy. He also ranges back to the antebellum era and forward to postwar South, when women quickly acquiesced to the old patriarchal system but nonetheless lived lives changed forever by the war.

The Collapse of the Confederacy

Author : Mark Grimsley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803271036
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of the Confederacy written by Mark Grimsley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practically all Civil War historians agree that after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and Lincoln's triumphant reelection in November, the South had no remaining chance to make good its independence. Well aware that Appomattox and Durham Station were close at hand, historians have treated the war's final months in a fashion that smacks strongly of denouement: the great, tragic conflict rolls on to its now-certain end. ø Certain, that is, to us, but deeply uncertain to the millions of Northerners and Southerners who lived through the anxious days of early 1865. The final months of the Confederacy offer fascinating opportunities-as a case study in war termination, as a period that shaped the initial circumstances of Reconstruction, and as a lens through which to analyze Southern society at its most stressful moment. The Collapse of the Confederacy collects six essays that explore how popular expectations, national strategy, battlefield performance, and Confederate nationalism affected Confederate actions during the final months of the conflict.

Grain and Fire

Author : Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469668378
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Grain and Fire written by Rebecca Sharpless and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions—Indigenous American, European, and African—collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know as the southern baking tradition. Recognizing that sentiments around southern baking run deep, Sharpless takes delight in deflating stereotypes as she delves into the surprising realities underlying the creation and consumption of baked goods. People who controlled the food supply in the South used baking to reinforce their power and make social distinctions. Who used white cornmeal and who used yellow, who put sugar in their cornbread and who did not had traditional meanings for southerners, as did the proportions of flour, fat, and liquid in biscuits. By the twentieth century, however, the popularity of convenience foods and mixes exploded in the region, as it did nationwide. Still, while some regional distinctions have waned, baking in the South continues to be a remarkable, and remarkably tasty, source of identity and entrepreneurship.

The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience

Author : Emory M. Thomas
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362992
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience written by Emory M. Thomas and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 1971, has made us look again at the events surrounding the Civil War. The Confederate Southerners likened themselves to the American revolutionaries of 1776. Although both revolutions sought independence and the overthrow of an existing political system, the Confederates battled for a political separation to conserve rather than to create. The result, however, was a transformation of the antebellum traditions they were fighting to preserve.

Moments of Despair

Author : David Silkenat
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807877956
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Moments of Despair written by David Silkenat and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War era, black and white North Carolinians were forced to fundamentally reinterpret the morality of suicide, divorce, and debt as these experiences became pressing issues throughout the region and nation. In Moments of Despair, David Silkenat explores these shifting sentiments. Antebellum white North Carolinians stigmatized suicide, divorce, and debt, but the Civil War undermined these entrenched attitudes, forcing a reinterpretation of these issues in a new social, cultural, and economic context in which they were increasingly untethered from social expectations. Black North Carolinians, for their part, used emancipation to lay the groundwork for new bonds of community and their own interpretation of social frameworks. Silkenat argues that North Carolinians' attitudes differed from those of people outside the South in two respects. First, attitudes toward these cultural practices changed more abruptly and rapidly in the South than in the rest of America, and second, the practices were interpreted through a prism of race. Drawing upon a robust and diverse body of sources, including insane asylum records, divorce petitions, bankruptcy filings, diaries, and personal correspondence, this innovative study describes a society turned upside down as a consequence of a devastating war.

Warrior at Heart

Author : John Adams
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460267850
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Warrior at Heart written by John Adams and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Milton—a true son of the South— endeavored to find ways in which to keep Florida relevant to the Confederate cause. Under Milton, Florida was a key contributor of supplies for the Confederate Army. supplies. By pledging men, beef, and salt among other supplies, Milton gave credence to Florida’s war effort. However, poor strategizing, blockades, and lack of military might led to several failed attempts to overcome the Union armies infiltrating the Florida coast. Left to defend themselves from the enemy with little help from their Confederate compatriots, Floridians grew increasingly disenchanted with their government’s dismissive attitude. Over the course of the war, they were caught between survival and secession. With little resources remaining, survival was the only way for the state to maintain itself. Left disillusioned, the embattled Milton took matters into his own hands, refusing to submit to the impending surrender secession and the ignominy of defeat. Warrior at Heart is an in-depth study of Florida’s Southern history during the Civil War. Historian John Adams gives detailed analyses of not only the economic dynamics reasons for the South to wage war, but also the events that shaped John Milton’s role in the war effort. www.warrioratheartbooks.com

The Confederacy

Author : Paul D. Escott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1573569933
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Confederacy written by Paul D. Escott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp-edged and revealing account of the transforming struggle for Southern independence and the inherent contradictions that undermined that effort. Paul Escott's The Confederacy: The Slaveholders' Failed Venture offers a unique and multifaceted perspective on the United States' most pivotal and devastating conflict, examining the course of the Civil War from the perspective of the Southern elite class, who were desperate to preserve the "peculiar institution" of its slave-based economy, yet dependent on ordinary Southerners, slaves, and women to sustain the fight for them. Against the backdrop of the war's military drama and strategic dilemmas, The Confederacy brings into sharp focus the racial, class, gender, and political conflicts that helped destabilize the Confederacy from within. Along the way, Escott shows how time and time again, the South's political and economic elite made errors that further weakened a South already facing a Union army with greater numbers and firepower.

The World of the Civil War [2 volumes]

Author : Lisa . Tendrich Frank
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 747 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The World of the Civil War [2 volumes] written by Lisa . Tendrich Frank and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering everything from the arts to food and drink, religion, social customs, and technology, this two-volume set provides an in-depth, accessible look at the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of the American Civil War. The American Civil War caused dramatic changes in every aspect of life and society, affecting combatants and noncombatants at all levels of the socioeconomic scale. The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia offers an accessible and reliable reference for the major topics that defined American life during the nation's most tumultuous era. Taking a blended approach to history, this book covers the military and political history of the era and examines the social and human experiences of the war, thereby offering a comprehensive look at the Civil War era's most significant events, people, places, and experiences. The thematic organization of this encyclopedia helps readers to more readily explore related topics. The subject matter explored in some 250 entries includes religious beliefs and practices; rites of passage; soldiers' lives and experiences; rural and urban life; social structure of the Civil War era—aristocrats, landowners, and slaves; men's and women's roles and responsibilities; holidays, festivals, and other celebrations; tools, machinery, and inventions; and justice and punishment. Readers will come away with an understanding of many aspects of daily life during the Civil War era and gain appreciation for the vast differences between life today and 150 years ago.

Confederate Engineer

Author : George G. Kundahl
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572330733
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Confederate Engineer written by George G. Kundahl and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Morris Wampler was a topographical engineer in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States and eventually became chief engineer of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Based on extensive use of Wampler's unpublished correspondence and journals, the biography follows his experiences before hostilities and then during the war in both major theaters. It also draws on the writings of his wife, Kate, to show how she struggled to hold their family together during the fighting. The combination of both the husband and wife's perspectives on the war makes this treatment unique."--Jacket.

Rebels against the Confederacy

Author : Barton A. Myers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107075246
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Rebels against the Confederacy written by Barton A. Myers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Barton A. Myers analyzes the secret world of hundreds of white and black Southern Unionists as they struggled for survival in a new Confederate world, resisted the imposition of Confederate military and civil authority, began a diffuse underground movement to destroy the Confederacy, joined the United States Army as soldiers, and waged a series of violent guerrilla battles at the local level against other Southerners. Myers also details the work of Confederates as they struggled to build a new nation at the local level and maintain control over manpower, labor, agricultural, and financial resources, which Southern Unionists possessed. The story is not solely one of triumph over adversity but also one of persecution and, ultimately, erasure of these dissidents by the postwar South's Lost Cause mythologizers.

History of the Southern Confederacy

Author : Clement Eaton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029087104
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book History of the Southern Confederacy written by Clement Eaton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1965-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the social, political, and military history of the Confederacy, looking at how the morale of the people and the army affected the outcome of the war, analyzing the operation of the Confederate government, and delineating the changes which occurred in the society of the Old South under the impact of the war.

Raised Country Style from South Carolina to Mississippi

Author : Bettye B. Burkhalter
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449014542
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Raised Country Style from South Carolina to Mississippi written by Bettye B. Burkhalter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The saga continues with Dr. Burel's children moving west. His son James led the Mississippi-bound wagons from South Carolina into another untamed frontier. Their first Christmas in Attalaville, Mississippi, was a grand celebration of their newfound life, only to have the New Year bring tragedy. Mississippi's Golden Years brought prosperity to the pioneers as landowners and independent farmers. Too soon the Civil War swept across their land leaving King Cotton reeling and survivors coping with shattered lives. Sympathetic eyes of the world watched as they searched for ways to survive the aftermath of total war. Lisbeth Burel struggled with the heartbreak of losing the war, her husband James, and her youngest son. Bracing to survive post-war defeat and economic ruination, Lisbeth and her oldest son learned to cope with the nagging pain and hatred of a useless war. With the burden of the world on William Riley's back, he turned to God and self-reliance to get them through the bleak future. Recovery was slow, and families joined hands to plant new fields of cotton, corn, and sorghum cane. Thirty years of worry and hard work turned William into an old, sick man long before his time. On a cold October morning, the stooped and frail man shuffled toward the sugarcane mill and furnace. Assuring the old family recipe and tradition continued, he taught his grandson how to cook molasses to be as smooth as silk. A couple months later William's family celebrated the biggest Christmas since the war. Sadly, two days later the celebration was marred as his thirteen proud children mourned the loss of their Pa. After the war, William Riley took great pain to instill the belief that they, and their kind, were the moral fiber offering the best hope for rebuilding the New South. And they were.