Basic history of the Confederacy

Vandiver, Frank Everson. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0898742066
Physical Description: print
186 S.
Edition: Repr.
Publisher: Huntington, NY : Krieger, 1980.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

PART I - A basic history of the Confederacy. "We, the people of the Confederate states..." -- Thin ranks and short rations -- Dixie land -- "The illusion of king cotton -- "That incomparable infantry" -- "King Jeff the first" -- The lost cause -- -- PART II - Documents. South Carolina ordinance of secession, 1860 -- The Constitution of the Confederate States of America, 1861 -- General Beauregard asks surrender of Fort Sumter, 1861 -- Major Anderson declines to surrender Sumter, 1861 -- Problems of life in the Army, 1861 -- First Confederate conscription law, 1861 -- Davis on conscription and exemption, 1863 -- Enrollment of slaves in the Army, 1865 -- Act regulating impressments, 1863 -- Government price schedule, 1863 -- Makeshift medicines and substitute recipes, 1863 -- "Our martyrs" by P.H. Hayne -- A proposed commercial treaty, 1862 -- Mediation considered by England, 1862 -- The government manages blockade running, 1864 -- A view of Stonewall Jackson, 1862 -- An Indian alliance, 1861 -- Confederate war aims, 1862 -- Lee's last report to the president, 1865 -- Jefferson Davis' last message, 1865 -- Surrender terms at Appomattox.