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Preface ix Introduction JOHN C. INSCOE AND LESLEY J. GORDON Emory M.Thomas and the Confederate Imagination RUSSELL DUNCAN AND JENNIFER LUND SMITH N AT I O N A L I S M A N D I D E N T I T Y Striking a Revolution’s First Blow WILLIAM C. DAVIS 3 A Revolution in Raleigh: The Early Transformation of a Confederate State Capital, 86 DAVID H. MC GEE 4 Contents Shades of Nation: Confederate Loyalties in Southeastern Virginia BRIAN S. WILLS 59 The Literary Shaping of Confederate Identity: Daniel R. Hundley and John Beauchamp Jones in Peace and War FRANK J. BYRNE 78 The Saratoga That Wasn’t: Confederate Recognition and the Effect of Antietam Abroad JAMES M. MC PHERSON 97 “Witness the Redemption of the Army”: Reenlistments in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, January–March 864 KEITH S. BOHANNON The Essential Nationalism of the People: Georgia’s Confederate Congressional Election of 863 ROD ANDREW JR. 28 “The Chrysalis State”: Slavery, Confederate Identity, and the Creation of the Border South CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS 47 FA M I LY A N D G E N D E R The Moral Imagination of Confederate Family Politics JEAN E. FRIEDMAN 67 vi CONTENTS [18.218.129.100] Project MUSE (2024-04-16 22:47 GMT) Courting Nationalism: The Wartime Letters of Bobbie Mitchell and Nettie Fondren LESLEY J. GORDON 88 “And for the Widow and Orphan”: Confederate Widows, Poverty, and Public Assistance JENNIFER LYNN GROSS 209 “Talking Heroines”: Elite Mountain Women as Chroniclers of Stoneman’s Raid, April 865 JOHN C. INSCOE 230 R A C E The Costliness of Discrimination: Medical Care for Black Troops in the Civil War JOSEPH T. GLATTHAAR 25 The Atlanta Campaign and the African American Experience in Civil War Georgia CLARENCE L. MOHR 272 Half Slave, Half Free: Unionist Robert Webster in Confederate Atlanta THOMAS G. DYER 295 “What Price Must We Pay for Victory?”: Views on Arming Slaves from Lynchburg, Virginia, to Galveston,Texas PHILIP D. DILLARD 36 CONTENTS vii M E M O R Y A N D L E G A C I E S “While the Participants Are Yet Alive”: The Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy GLENNA R. SCHROEDER-LEIN 335 When Charles Francis Adams Met Robert E. Lee: A Southern Gentleman in History and Memory NINA SILBER 349 The Last Word WILLIAM S. MC FEELY 36 Select Bibliography 363 Editors and Contributors 367 Index 37 viii CONTENTS ...