Armies of deliverance: a new history of the Civil War Varon

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019086060X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190860608
• Author(s): Varon, Elizabeth R

Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike. The theme of deliverance was essential in mobilizing a Unionist coalition of Northerners and anti Confederate Southerners.

Confederates, fighting to establish an independent slaveholding republic, were determined to preempt, discredit, and silence Yankee appeals to the Southern masses. In their quest for political unity Confederates relentlessly played up two themes: Northern barbarity and Southern victimization. Casting the Union army as ruthless conquerors, Confederates argued that the emancipation of blacks was synonymous with the subjugation of the white South.

Table contents:

Part One: Loyalism
1. March of Redemption: First Bull Run to Fort Donelson
2. Ripe for the Harvest: To Shiloh
3. Sacred Soil: Virginia in the Summer of 1862
4. The Perils of Occupation
Part Two: Emancipation
5. Countdown to Jubilee: Lincoln’s Hundred Days
6. The Emancipation Proclamation
7. Fire in the Rear: To Chancellorsville
8. Under a Scorching Sun: The Summer of 1863
Part Three Amnesty
9. Rallying Point: Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
10. Is This Hell? Fort Pillow to Atlanta
11. Campaign Season: The Election of 1864
12. Malice Toward None: The Union Triumphant
Conclusion: “Deliver Us from Such a Moses”: Andrew Johnson and the Legacy of the Civil War
Notes
Index

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