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political prisoners and the myth of Confederate constitutionalism

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Southern rights

political prisoners and the myth of Confederate constitutionalism

"On the day Fort Sumter surrendered to Confederate authorities, General Braxton Bragg reacted to a newspaper report that might have revealed the position of gun emplacements by arresting the correspondent, a Southern loyalist. Thus the Confederate army's first detention of a citizen occurred before President Lincoln had even called out troops to suppress the rebellion.

During the civil war that followed, not a day would pass when Confederate military prisons did not contain political prisoners."--BOOK JACKET.

"Based on the discovery of records of over four thousand of these prisoners, Mark E. Neely, Jr.'s book undermines the common understanding that Jefferson Davis and the Confederates were scrupulous in their respect for constitutional rights while Lincoln and the Unionists regularly violated the rights of dissenters.

Neely reveals for the first time the extent of repression of Unionists and other civilians in the Confederacy and uncovers and marshals convincing evidence that Southerners were as ready as their Northern counterparts to give up civil liberties in response to the real or imagined threats of wartime."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
212

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-204) and indexes.

Published in
Charlottesville
Series
A nation divided

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.7/72
Library of Congress
E487 .N44 1999, E487.N44 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 212 p. ;
Number of pages
212

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL37790M
Internet Archive
southernrightspo0000neel
ISBN 10
0813918944
LCCN
99025230
OCLC/WorldCat
41076301
Library Thing
1033691
Goodreads
1600140

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