Search Results - "Elections"

Lincoln and the Civil War by Burlingame, Michael, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The election of 1860 and southern secession -- From election to inauguration -- The Fort Sumter crisis -- The war begins -- Stalemate -- War in earnest -- Dealing with slavery -- Winter of discontent -- The tide turns -- Reelection -- Endgame.…”
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Roots of secession slavery and politics in antebellum Virginia / by Link, William A.

Table of Contents: “…A slave society : Virginia in the 1850s -- Boastful and belligerent champions of southern institutions : slavery and politics, 1851-1854 -- A uniform spirit of lawlessness : the problem of runaways -- A spirit of license in the guise of liberty : the survival of opposition, 1854-1856 -- The darkest and most perilous hours of our national existence : the deepening sectional crisis, 1856-1859 -- A black demon of fanaticism : Harpers Ferry and the election of 1860 -- To light the torch of servile insurrection : the secession crisis.…”
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North Carolinians in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Table of Contents: “…Myers -- Visions of freedom and civilization opening before them : African Americans search for autonomy during military occupation in North Carolina / Judkin Browning -- The order of nature would be reversed : soldiers, slavery, and the North Carolina gubernatorial election of 1864 / Chandra Manning -- To do justice to North Carolina : the war's end according to Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Zebulon B. …”
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Surveillance and spies in the Civil War : exposing Confederate conspiracies in America's heartland / by Towne, Stephen E., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Vallandigham, the Ohio gubernatorial election of 1863, and plots to release Confederate POWs in the fall of 1863 -- "It is impossible to doubt this": army intelligence in the Northern Department in early 1864 -- "What I say about secret dangers is well considered and based on fact": how Rosecrans's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in early 1864 -- "When government determines to act": how Carrington's detectives infiltrated the secret organizations in 1864 -- "I feel provoked beyond measure at the indifference of the president": convincing Lincoln of the danger of insurrection, summer 1864 -- A "narrow escape from a Civil War": the triumph of military intelligence in august 1864 -- "I make no assertions without proof": preserving the northwest in the fall of 1864 -- Postscript: the evidence of conspiracy.…”
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The struggle for equality essays on sectional conflict, the Civil War, and the long reconstruction /

Table of Contents: “…Giggie -- Peddling the lost cause : a southern white woman at work / Michele Gillespie -- Race and municipal reform in the progressive era : the adoption of at-large elections in Norfolk, Virginia, 1914-1918 / Peyton McCrary -- School of a soldier : World War II as a transformative experience in the life of Dr. …”
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Confederate colonels a biographical register / by Allardice, Bruce S.

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