Civil War Alabama / Christopher Lyle McIlwain ; foreword by Guy W. Hubbs.
Material type: TextPublication details: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780817389246
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- Alabama -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
- Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- HISTORY -- Military -- United States
- HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- Politics and government
- Alabama
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- 1861-1865
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- E551 .M34 2016
- HIS036050 | HIS027110 | HIS036120
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- PART I. ALABAMA SECEDES. The "lawyers' revolution" -- "A leap in the dark" -- "There will be a revulsion" -- PART II. THE WAR BEGINS. "Sprinkle blood in the face of the people" -- "Food for sad and gloomy fits" -- Evil times -- PART III. THE DECREE OF THE NATION. The decree of the nation -- "Yankeeizing Southerners" -- "The struggle of the masters" -- PART IV. THE HARD WAR. The destroying angels -- The reconstructionists -- The slaughter pen -- The river of death -- PART V. IN SEARCH OF PEACE. "God close this terrible war" -- War eagle! -- The horrors of the black flag -- PART VI. BOWING DOWN TO MARS. "Retrograde movements" and "Backward advances" -- Rousseau's Raid -- The fall of Mobile Bay and Atlanta -- PART VII. THE DEATH THROES OF A REBELLION. "On the wrong side of the line of battle" -- "Rats to your holes" -- "Balls and parties are all the rage" -- Franklin, Nashville, and disintegration -- PART VIII. "THE HOLOCAUST". "Ne-gotiation" or "Ne-grotiation" -- "The day of jubilee am come!" -- Conclusion.
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