William Lowndes Yancey and the coming of the Civil War [electronic resource] /
Eric H. Walther.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- xi, 477 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
- Civil War America .
- Civil War America. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and index.
Introduction -- Jordan's stormy banks -- Rebellion and Union -- Flush times and bad times in Alabama and South Carolina -- Politician -- Party and honor -- The Alabama platform -- Secessionist -- Creating the "leaven of disunion" -- Public man, private life -- Yancey and the house divided -- Walker and Walker, the league and the letter -- The conventions of 1860 -- The voice of the South -- The men and the hours -- In King Arthur's court -- Journeys home -- The main pillar of the Confederacy.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863.
United States. Congress. House --Biography.
Legislators--Alabama--Biography. Secession--Alabama. Statesmen--Confederate States of America--Biography. Legislators--United States--Biography.
Alabama--Politics and government--To 1865. Confederate States of America--Politics and government. United States--History--Causes.--Civil War, 1861-1865