William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War [electronic resource] / Eric H. Walther.
Series: Civil War AmericaPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.Description: xi, 477 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cmSubject(s):- 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
- 973.7/13092 B 22
- E415.9.Y2 W35 2006eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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