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Great expectations: the imaginative literature of the Confederate States of America -- A history of the future: Southern literary nationalism before the Confederacy -- A new experiment in the art of book-making: engendering the Confederate national novel -- Southern amaranths: popularity, occasion, and media in a Confederate poetics of place -- The music of Mars: Confederate song, North and South -- In dreamland: the Confederate memoir at home and abroad

Abstract. In recent years, numerous states have become racked with internal secessionist strife. Why have calls for independence by regional subgroupings been heeded even after long periods of inter‐ethnic peace or in regions without any previous history of secessionist activity? I contend that this question can be answered by examining the phenomenon of loss‐gain framing, in which people are motivated to adopt risky stratagems, like secession, due to fears of unacceptable losses.This article examines the enigma of why most white American Southerners in 1861 willingly fought for the establishment of the Confederacy, a nation based upon slavery, despite the fact that most Southerners did not own slaves and had continuously rejected secessionist appeals for years. Confederate President Jefferson Davis overcame this reluctance by emphasising what all Southerners – slaveholder and non‐slaveholder alike – would lose by remaining in the United States rather than accentuating what would be gained by secession.

War has probably been the single most important influence on the development of central state authority in the United States. Although the state-centered mobilization of economic resources and manpower that accompanies military conflict is commonly conceded to have had this effect throughout American history, the centralizing influence of the Civil War on the southern Confederate government has not been accorded the precedent-setting importance it deserves. The consolidation of economic and social controls within the central government of the Confederacy was in fact so extensive that it calls into question standard interpretations of southern opposition to the expansion of federal power in both the antebellum and post-Reconstruction periods. Southern reluctance to expand federal power in those periods has been attributed variously to regional sympathy for laissez-faire principles, the "precapitalist" cultural origins of the plantation elite, and a general philosophical orientation hostile to state development.

Confederate imprint. Cf. Harwell. More Confederate imprints, 250. ; Contains An act to repeal certain clauses of an act to exempt certain persons from military service, etc., approved 11th October, 1862. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; will digitize ; The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by Emory University Libraries.

"In 1923, the Southern Historical Society (SHS) published 'Proceedings of the Confederate Congress' in its journal, Southern Historical Society Papers. It was the first of nine issues containing congressional minutes from the public sessions of the Confederate Congress that met in Richmond, Virginia from February 1862 to March 1865. Unlike the summary notations of the official US congressional journals, the 'Proceedings' were drawn primarily from the archives of two newspapers from Richmond, Virginia-the Examiner and the Dispatch-which served the Confederacy's capital city. These journalists['] reports preserved nearly verbatim transcripts of speeches, debates, and bills considered by the Confederate legislature, including details seldom available from other sources, and have proven to be invaluable sources for Confederate political history. 'Proceedings of the Confederate Congress' is not without problems, however, chief among them its lack of completeness. Owing to budgetary constraints and lack of resources, SHS president Douglas Southall Freeman was forced to focus exclusively on the sessions of the Regular Confederate Congress beginning in 1862. None of the proceedings of the Montgomery and Richmond Provisional Congresses of 1861 and 1862 were included in the series. With 'Congress of States,' David Carlson fills this void by compiling and editing the minutes of these early legislative sessions from daily press reports published in newspapers in Richmond, Virginia; Montgomery, Alabama; Charleston, South Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Savannah and Augusta, Georgia, in the process assembling a complete set of transcriptions documenting the creation of the Confederate government. When delegations from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and, later, Texas met in Montgomery, Alabama in February 1861 to discuss the creation of a southern national government, none had been authorized to do so by the conventions that sent them. Within weeks, however, they launched a de facto constitutional convention, formed a government, and selected Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens to serve as president and vice president of the new nation. This transpired at a critical juncture prior to Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration when eight other slave states had yet to act. The delegates understood their place on the public stage and newspapers' usefulness in espousing and galvanizing their cause. From its initial formation through the expansion of the Confederacy and the new government's official establishment in the capital city of Richmond, Virginia, the Provisional Congress provided a vehicle around which the new nation coalesced as members negotiated with states and foreign governments, mobilized a military, consulted with constituents, and forged a national culture. As the conflict deepened, sensitive business increasingly took place behind closed doors away from the public, reporters, and the risk of espionage (as would also be true in the Regular Confederate Congress), but even the public functions that remained and were reported on in open chambers provide valuable insights into the workings and mindset of the Confederate government. Intended as a primary source and reference for libraries, historians, and political scientists of the nineteenth century, 'Congress of States' provides an introduction explaining the Provisional Confederate Congress and the background and purpose of the book relative to the SHS and its 'Proceedings of the Confederate Congress'; a chronology outlining the major events surrounding the secession crisis which informed and influenced the Provisional Congress; annotated minutes for each of Provisional Confederate Congress's five sessions; and appendices featuring the leadership and committees of the Provisional Congress, primary source documents referenced but not included in the proceedings, and examples of the proposed emblem and flags debated as symbols of the Confederacy"--

At head of letter: Confederate States of America, Treasury dept., Richmond, July 24th, 1861. ; Title from letter of transmittal. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; will digitize ; The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Libraries

Beginnings -- Mississippi : land of opportunity -- Military service in Mexico : disease, deprivation and death -- Barksdale secures his political future -- Turbulent times in Washington City -- Epithets, fisticuffs and the downward spiral to secession -- From quartermaster general to a combat command at First Manassas -- Charges of drunkenness, redemption at Edward's Ferry and a court of inquiry -- The seven days battles : Barksdale commands the Mississippi Brigade -- Malvern Hill : Barksdale exhibits the highest qualities of the soldier -- Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg : brigadier general Barksdale front and center -- Fredericksburg : dead Yankees on the pontoon bridges and in the streets -- Second Fredericksburg (Chancellorsville) : "we must make the fight whether we hold it or are whipped" -- Gettysburg : a grim determination to do or die -- Barksdale's death, burials, state funeral and legacy.

Signed: R.E. Lee, General. ; No. 1 (Feb. 9) -- no. 2 (Feb. 11) -- no. 3 (Feb. 11) -- no. 4 (Feb. 22). ; Crandall, M.L. Confederate imprints, ; Parrish & Willingham. Confederate Imprints, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; will digitize ; Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library copy imperfect, nos. 1, 3 and 4 only. ; The online edition of this book in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Libraries.