The Confederate Governors
Wildred Buck Yearns (editor-in-chief), John G. Barrett (other), F. N. Boney (other), Vincent H. Cassidy (other), Michael B. Dougan (other), Robert W. Dubay (other), John B. Edmunds (other), Paul D. Escott (other), Kermit L. Hall (other), Lowell H. Harrison (other), Malcolm C. McMillan (other), William E. Parrish (other), Ralph A. Wooster (other)
Paperback Published on: 01/05/2010
Price: £38.95
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Synopsis
This collection of thirteen essays examines the leaders of the southern states during the Civil War. Malcolm C. McMillan writes of the futile efforts of Alabama's wealthy governors to keep the trust of the poor non-slaveholding whites. Paul D. Escott shows Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson Brown's ability to please both the planter elite and the yeoman farmers. John B. Edmunds, Jr. examines the tremendous problems faced by the governors of South Carolina, the state that would.
Publisher information
- Publisher: University of Georgia Press
- ISBN: 9780820335575
- Number of pages: 304
- Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- Weight: 454g
- Languages: English
