...A. Sellew Roberts Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 High Prices and the Blockade in the Confederacy A. Sellew Roberts University of Illinois When the Union government proclaimed and enforced a blockade of the southern ports it struck the Confederacy its hardest blow...

...George W. Williams Music of the Old South: Colony to Confederacy . By Stoutamire Albert . Rutherford, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press , 1971 . Pp. 349 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 163 have their problems. The index...

...Paul D. Escott Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Southern Yeomen and the Confederacy Paul D. Escott Nonslaveholding yeomen farmers had an anomalous position in the antebellum South. They were the dominant group in terms of num­ bers but not in political power or social influence...

... . Robinson Armstead L. 2005 . Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865 . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . Scott Rebecca J. 1985 . Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899 . Princeton...

...Robert H. Woody A Pictorial History of the Confederacy . By Buchanan Lamont . New York : Crown , 1951 . Pp. 288 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 162 The South Atlantic Quarterly Smoky Mountain Country. By North Callahan. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce...

...Robert H. Woody A History of the Southern Confederacy . By Eaton Clement . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1954 . Pp. ix , 351 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 575 the world as an unattached famous person. Then he lost everything...

... synthesis of the subject yet published. Alexander deconde The Desolate South 1865-1866: A Picture of the Battlefields and the Devastated Confederacy. By John T. Trowbridge. Edited by Gordon Carroll. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Pp. xvi, 320. $6.00. In August, 1865, John T. Trowbridge...

...I. B. Holley, Jr. Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works . By Dew Charles B. . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1966 . Pp. ix , 345 . $10.00 Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 190 The South Atlantic Quarterly of touch...

...John M. Gibson THE MIRACLE MAN OF THE CONFEDERACY JOHN M. GIBSON NE OF THE MOST disheartening problems facing Jefferson Davis and his advisers at the outbreak of the Civil War was an almost complete lack of guns and ammunition and the means of providing them. Not only was there little prospect...

... in this, the largest and most cosmopolitan city of the former Confederacy. Postwar regulation made no racial distinctions among women in the trade, and prostitutes’ lives were thus often remarkably similar. Women worked and resided in the same parts of town, even on the same notorious block; faced similarly explosive...

... nonhumans. The intricate consensus‐based decision‐making protocols that compose the Rotinonhsión:ni Confederacy's precolonial governance system likewise attest to the respect for separation that pervades all relations, as if the potential of Rotinonhsión:ni diplomacy to render sovereign power destitute had...

...; though it covers only the brief span of the Confederacy, it is about one-third longer than its predecessors. The author is one of the most prolific writers of history the South has produced. He is the only writer to contribute two volumes to the present series (the other was The South during...

... served as chief clerk in the office of the secretary of state of the Southern confederacy from 1861 to 1865, adds to the list of the silent majority beyond, another prominent man who burned his bridges behind him, leaving to posterity no historical record or narrative of his personal experience while...

... tion of Confederate leaders that retreat was inevitable, that their capital was doomed, that in all likelihood theirs was a Lost Cause. With disaster pending, the Confederacy rushed plans for transfer of its government to Charlottesville, west by north from Richmond in the Blue Ridge Mountains...

.... Escott. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 295. $17.50. Jefferson Davis, the author of this well-executed book believes, must bear the responsibility for the Confederacy s defeat. That in it­ self is not new, for others have said as much before. Escott, however...

.... T. Beauregard are espe­ cially so. The letters to and from Colonel L. B. Northrop, Commissary General of the Confederacy, concerning Johnston and Beauregard and the war-time administration of the com­ missariat are the most revealing. Davis s friendship with Northrop apparently began at West Point...

... of a war. In fact, in view of the many problems which faced the authors and publishers, it is surprising the Confederacy produced any literature at all, but the political and military storm that swept the South with war brought with it opportunity for a home literature to flourish. This was first...

... which Miss Bourne has brought to its problems. Theodore Ropp. SIGNIFICANT WRITINGS ON THE CONFEDERACY The South to Posterity: An Introduction to the Writing of Confed­ erate History. By Douglas Southall Freeman. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1939- Pp. xii, 235. $2.50. The less inclusive subtitle...

... for the Confederacy s defeat. That in it­ self is not new, for others have said as much before. Escott, however, probes more deeply into the quality of Davis s leadership, his re­ sponses to the enormous economic and political problems that con­ fronted his nation, and especially his effort to fashion and promote...

..., as Sir Winstor Churchhill has said, and since the Confederacy fought under many handicaps, the story is inevitably one of mistakes and failures. President Davis lacked the perception and the temperament for his task; Vice-President Stephens was out of sympathy with the conduct of the war, as were sundry...