The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction KennethW. Noe 1 1. Precipitating a Revolution: Alabama’s Democracy in the Election of 1860 Lonnie A. Burnett 15 2. “The Aggressions of the North Can Be Borne No Longer”: White Alabamian Women during the Secession Crisis and Outbreak of War Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño 34 3. Confederate Alabama’s Finest Hour: The Battle of Salem Church, May 3, 1863 Ben H. Severance 55 4. The Confederate Sun Sets on Selma: Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Defense of Alabama in 1865 Brian SteelWills 71 5. Fighting for the Cause? An Examination of the Motivations of Alabama’s Confederate Soldiers from a Class Perspective Kristopher A. Teters 90 6. Voices from the Margins: Non-Elites in Confederate Alabama Victoria E. Ott 107 7. Augusta Jane Evans: Alabama’s Confederate Macaria Jennifer Lynn Gross 125 8. “The Best Southern Patriots”: Jews in Alabama during the Civil War Patricia A. Hoskins 149 9. Every Man Should Consider His Own Conscience: Black and White Alabamians’ Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Harriet E. Amos Doss 165 vi / Contents 10. alabama’s reconstruction after 150 Years SarahWoolfolkWiggins 177 11. of ambition and enterprise: The making of Carpetbagger George e. spencer Terry L. Seip 191 12. “he was always Preaching the Union”: The wartime origins of white republicanism during reconstruction MichaelW. Fitzgerald 220 13. labor, law, and the freedmen’s bureau in alabama, 1865–1867 Jason J. Battles 240 14. freedom’s Church: sociocultural Construction, reconstruction, and Post-reconstruction in Perry County, alabama’s african american Churches Bertis English 258 suggestions for further reading 281 Contributors 289 index 291 ...