A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy
A South Divided is an account of Southern dissidents in the Civil War, at times labeled as traitors, Tories, deserters, or mossbacks during the war and loyalists, Lincoln loyalists, and Unionists by historians of the war.
In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Southern dissenters among specific groups or communities. But A South Divided presents a panoramic overview of Southern dissent. What emerges is a complex pattern of dissent involving every state of the Confederacy and every year of the war. All of these people and groups had their part to play in the epic drama that sapped the strength of the Confederacy from within. They were rebels against the rebellion.
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Book details
- Author
- David Downing
- Imprint
- Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) - Topics
- Civil War · American South · Confederate dissent · Southern Unionists · U.S. history · political dissent · Civil War era
- ISBN-13
- 9781581825879
About the author
DAVID C. DOWNING is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College and Co-director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, with four scholarly books on C. S. Lewis to his name. His recent books include A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy and Planets in Peril.
Downing’s book Planets in Peril was named an Outstanding Book of the Year by the American Library Association and received the Mythopoeic Society’s Book of the Year award. A South Divided was nominated for the Lincoln Award sponsored by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
Downing holds a BA from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and an MA and PhD from UCLA.