Becoming Confederates : paths to a new national loyalty /

In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early-three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many...

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Main Author: Gallagher, Gary W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, ©2013.
Series:Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 54.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conduct must conform to the new order of things: R.E. Lee and the question of loyalty
  • He died as became a Confederate soldier: Stephen Dodson Ramseur's easy embrace of the Confederacy
  • Consistent conservative: Jubal A. Early's patriotic submission
  • For his country and his duty: Confederate national sentiment beyond Appomattox.