Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent M. S. Campney
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
The South

This introductory chapter decenters a number of common assumptions regarding racial violence by situating it in Kansas during the six and a half decades following the outbreak of the American Civil War. It also examines the limitations of a scholarly focus on lynching and sensationalized violence that centers around the spectacle, and broadens the discussion to include threatened and routine violence as part of the racial paradigm under investigation. Likewise, this chapter positions the usual arena of racial violence away from the South and toward Kansas in the Midwest, and provides a brief overview of the region as it grapples with racial politics and slavery.

scholarly journals Management of Jaw Injuries in the American Civil War: The Diuturnity of Bean in the South, Gunning in the North

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Pollock
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Early Experience ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Jaw Fractures

James Baxter Bean published a series of articles in the Southern Dental Examiner in 1862 describing his work with “plaster and its manipulations.” This early experience included a new way of managing jaw fractures, with customized splints uniquely based on pretraumatic occlusion. Bean's oral splints and their method of construction, using an articulator, became the standard of care in the Atlanta region during the American Civil War and, by 1864, throughout The Confederacy. In short course, Bean's approach also swept The Union, following in large part the efforts of a colleague in the North, T.B. Gunning. Thus, what began in the early 1860s in a dental laboratory in the southeast swept the continental United States and revolutionized management of jaw-fractures during, and immediately after, the American Civil War.

British Sympathy for the South during the American Civil War and Reconstruction

2017 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-219
Author(s):  
Michael J. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The South ◽  
Religious Conviction ◽  
Religious Dimension ◽  
The North ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Cultural Affinity ◽  
American Union ◽  
The Church

This article focuses on some of the religious factors that shaped the pro-Southern lobby in Britain during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. British opinion cannot be explained only in terms of class and party. In exploring other determinants, the ideas and activities of wealthy High Churchman and Conservative politician Beresford Hope offer promising avenues of inquiry, for Hope saw in the American Union, and Southern secession, a religious dimension, represented most clearly in the Episcopal Church. To the more familiar (to historians) reasons why the South gained support in Britain—relating to economic and political interests—Hope added a deeper commitment arising from a sense of cultural affinity (the “Englishness” of the South) and from religious conviction (to him the Church, and indeed Christianity, seemed stronger in the South than in the North). This indicates a belief that Britain and the South were bound together by common Christian civilization.

The Emperor Gets Involved in the War

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-59
Author(s):  
Stève Sainlaude
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The South ◽  
French Government ◽  
Napoleon Iii

In defiance of neutrality, because he saw the American Civil War as an opportunity to strengthen France’s position in Mexico and Latin America,Napoleon III pursued a policy openly favourable to the Confederate government: he tried to gain the Confederates a respite from the war via mediation; he twice sought a way to recognize their government; and he wanted to build them ships and buy them maritime weapons. In both 1862 and 1863, Napoleon anticipated victory for the Confederates and wanted to support them with a diplomatic decision.However, Napoleon had to reckon with the resolute opposition of Foreign Minister Eduouard Thouvenel and his successor Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys, who regularly thwarted Napoleon’s plans. The Rappahanock affair was perhaps the peak of these convoluted negotiations. The Confederate envoys understood that there was no consensus in the French government on the position to adopt toward the South. As they attentively followed the exercise of French diplomacy, they saw that it was possible to draw actors into the opposition, to hamper the foreign minister’s efforts by encouraging his colleagues to contradict him, or even to appeal to the emperor and his entourage to achieve their ends.

scholarly journals A Sisters’ World: Reasons of the South and Domestic Whispers in Grace King’s Memories of a Southern Woman of Letters

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Daniele
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The South ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Writing Task ◽  
Grace King

Grace King documented the American Civil War from the Southern perspective of the losers, in times in which the Northern press urged her to embrace the winners’ ideology. As she witnessed the decline of the French colonial project in post-bellum Louisiana, her writing task was to preserve the Frenchified vernacular and the exquisite Creole traditions from oblivion. Her tales and memoirs from New Orleans’ history convey the tenacity of former mistresses and colored servants in mutual defense of their refined domestic order and family bonds disrupted by the brotherly fight.

scholarly journals Andersonville Revisited

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Pratley
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Audience Response ◽  
The South ◽  
The Past ◽  
Television Network ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Usa ◽  
First Time

JOHN FRANKENHEIMER'S LATERST FILM, ANDERSONVILLE, opened recently in the USA on the Turner Television Network to excellent reviews and a highly favourable audience response. His 31st motion picture, it takes place during the American Civil War and depicts for the first time on film the terrible suffering of Northern soldiers imprisoned in an overcrowded poorly managed camp run by the army of the South. An atrocity from the past, it also speaks graphically of the barbarities of the present war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and gives terrible meaning once again to the memories of the Holocaust. Implicit in Frankenheimer's treatment and graphic images of man's ever-present brutality towards mankind is the awareness of the powerful forces controlling the lives of certain individuals motivated by power and greed -- a theme underlining much of his work and informing the actions of so many of his characters. Andersonville In 1864, more than 32,000...

Lafayette of the South: Prince Camille de Polignac and the American Civil War

2002 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 970
Author(s):  
William Arceneaux ◽  
Jeff Kinard
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The South

2. Section to nation

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
Charles Reagan Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Economic System ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
American South ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
The South ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
Reconstruction Era ◽  
The American South ◽  
Sectional Identity

‘Section to nation’ examines how, by 1830, the American South had long had a predominantly agricultural economy. Its people soon idealized the agrarian republic that had taken shape after the American Revolution as the basis for an emerging sectional identity. Slavery was the basis of a productive economic system, in which the South was enmeshed with northern merchants and traders and the whole financial world of England. The American Civil War undermined southern ideology dramatically through the emancipation of slaves. The Reconstruction era would be nearly equal to the Civil War in forging a self-conscious white southern identity.

The Chancellorsville Campaign

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-390
Author(s):  
Christian B. Keller
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
The South ◽  
Confederate Army ◽  
Army Of Northern Virginia ◽  
Army Of The Potomac ◽  
Joseph Hooker

The Chancellorsville Campaign of early May 1863 was one of the most strategic military operations in any theater of the American Civil War. Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and his powerful Army of the Potomac were miraculously defeated by the outnumbered Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under the leadership of Gen. Robert E. Lee and Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. In a daring flank march and attack, the Rebels crushed the federal Eleventh Corps on May 2 and over the next several days hammered the rest of Hooker’s army back across the Rappahannock River. Northern morale sank, Copperheads gained momentum, and German Americans, feeling the sting of nativism, began to question their role in the Union. The initiative in the East once again passed to the South, creating conditions for what became the Pennsylvania Campaign. But Jackson, wounded accidentally by his own men, died, destroying the fragile command team Lee had carefully built over the previous year. His loss was a turning point in the war.

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