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Author Walther, Eric H., 1960-

Title William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War [electronic resource] / Eric H. Walther.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 477 p. : ill., ports.
Series Civil War America
Civil War America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863.
United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
Legislators -- Alabama -- Biography.
Secession -- Alabama.
Statesmen -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Alabama -- Politics and government -- To 1865.
Confederate States of America -- Politics and government.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807830275 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807830277

 
    
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