The Battlefield and Beyond: Essays on the American Civil War

Contents

vii CONTENTS Introduction clayton e. jewett 1 I . R ac e a n d Wa r fa r e i n t h e S o u t h The Silence of a Slaveholder: The Civil War Letters of James B. Griffin orville vernon burton 13 Robert E. Lee and the Arming of Black Men leonne m. hudson 28 Guerrilla Warfare, Democracy, and the Fate of the Confederacy daniel e. sutherland 49 I I . L e a d e r s h i p i n t h e C o n f e d e r acy Jefferson Davis and Stephen D. Lee herman hattaway 87 Evaluating Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy paul d. escott 106 Edmund Kirby Smith’s Early Leadership in the Trans-Mississippi judith f. gentry 126 I I I . D e s p ot i s m a n d C o n f e d e r at e D e f e at “Irresistible Outbreaks against Tories and Traitors”: The Suppression of New England Antiwar Sentiment in 1861 michael j. connolly 173 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX viii contents Senator Williamson S. Oldham and Confederate Defeat clayton e. jewett 196 I V. R e c o n s t r u c t i o n a n d t h e N e w S o u t h Transforming Original Intent: The U.S. Constitution in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era david e. kyvig 215 Goldberger and Gershwin: Two New York Jews Encounter the American South in the Early Twentieth Century alan m. kraut 232 V. M e m o ry a n d t h e A m e r i ca n C i v i l Wa r The Psychology of Hatred and the Ideology of Honor: Current Parallels in Booth’s Lincoln Conspiracies bertram wyatt-brown 265 Field of Mighty Memory: Gettysburg and the Americanization of the Civil War kenneth nivison 291 Of Health and History: The Museum of the Confederacy emory m. thomas 310 Jon L. Wakelyn’s Contribution jane turner censer and rosemarie zagarri 326 XXXXX Selected Works by Jon L. Wakelyn 335 Contributors 337 THE BATTLEFIELD AND BEYOND This page intentionally left blank ...