Walther, Eric H., 1960-

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.


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2009.
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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


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