William T. Auman

Civil War in the North Carolina Quaker Belt

The Confederate Campaign Against Peace Agitators, Deserters and Draft Dodgers

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an account of the seven military operations conducted by the Confederacy against deserters and disloyalists and the concomitant internal war between secessionists and those who opposed secession in the Quaker Belt of central North Carolina. It explains how the "outliers" (deserters and draft-dodgers) managed to elude capture and survive despite extensive efforts by Confederate authorities to hunt them down and return them to the army. The author discusses the development of the secret underground pro-Union organization the Heroes of America, and how its members utilized the Underground Railroad, dug-out caves, and an elaborate system of secret signals and communications to elude the "hunters." Numerous instances of murder, rape, torture and other brutal acts and many skirmishes between gangs of deserters and Confederate and state troops are recounted. In a revisionist interpretation of the Tar Heel wartime peace movement, the author argues that William Holden's peace crusade was in fact a Copperhead insurgency in which peace agitators strove for a return of North Carolina and the South to the Union on the Copperhead basis--that is, with the institution of slavery protected by the Constitution in the returning states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9780786476633
• ISBN-10: 078647663X
• Artikelnr.: 38608506

Autorenporträt

The late William T. Auman taught history in several universities, published three articles on the Civil War in North Carolina in The North Carolina Historical Review, and was a contributor to The Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. Two of his articles won the R.D.W. Connor Award for best article of the year.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments delete
vi Preface delete
1 Introduction delete
5 One.
The Antislavery Impulse and the Quaker Belt delete
9 Two.
The Secession Crisis and the Militant Unionists delete
26 Three.
The Inner Civil War delete
42 Four.
The Copperhead Insurgency, Phase One: The Peace Movement delete
78 Five.
General Hoke's Great Deserter Hunt in Late 1863 delete
103 Six.
The Copperhead Insurgency, Phase Two: The Convention Movement and the Gubernatorial Election of 1864 delete
126 Seven.
The 1864 Election Uprising and the Vance Repression delete
155 Eight.
The Last Hunt and the Conclusion of the Inner Civil War delete
180 Summary and Conclusions delete
199 Notes delete
215 Bibliography delete
247 Index delete
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