Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas

Contents

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 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 36 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 ...