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Title: The Day of the Confederacy
A Chronicle of the Embattled South, Volume 30 In The
Chronicles Of America Series
Author: Nathaniel W. Stephenson
Editor: Allen Johnson
Posting Date: January 26, 2009 [EBook #3035]
Release Date: January, 2002
Language: English
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Produced by The James J. Kelly Library of St. Gregory's
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THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY,
A CHRONICLE OF THE EMBATTLED SOUTH
By Nathaniel W. Stephenson
Volume 30 In The Chronicles of America Series
New Haven: Yale University Press
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press
1919
CONTENTS
I. THE SECESSION MOVEMENT
II. THE DAVIS GOVERNMENT
III. THE FALL OF KING COTTON
IV. THE REACTION AGAINST RICHMOND
V. THE CRITICAL YEAR
VI. LIFE IN THE CONFEDERACY
VII. THE TURNING OF THE TIDE
VIII. A GAME OF CHANCE
IX. DESPERATE REMEDIES
X. DISINTEGRATION
XI. AN ATTEMPTED REVOLUTION
XII. THE LAST WORD
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY
Chapter I. The Secession Movement
The secession movement had three distinct stages. The first, beginning
with the news that Lincoln was elected, closed with the news, sent
broadcast over the South from Charleston, that Federal troops had taken
possession of Fort Sumter on the night of the 28th of December. During
this period the likelihood of secession was the topic of discussion
in the lower South. What to do in case the lower South seceded was the
question which perplexed the upper South. In this period no State
north of South Carolina contemplated taking the initiative. In the
Southeastern and Gulf States immediate action of some sort was expected.
Whether it would be secession or some other new course was not certain
on the day of Lincoln's election. Various States earlier in the year had
provided for conventions of their people in the event of a Republican
victory
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