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"Widely hailed for his realistic portrayals of the common soldier of the Civil War, Bell Irvin Wiley upset carefully cultivated, deeply held southern myths about the Lost Cause with the 1944 publication of The Plain People of the Confederacy. His look at the Confederate experience of soldiers, African Americans, and women also sparked a debate about the reasons for southern defeat that continues among historians to this day. Republished here with Paul D.
Escott's new introduction and fresh appraisal of the book's influence, this classic work reveals a far more complex, conflicted, and intriguing society than the unified and idealized version created and perpetuated in the wake of surrender.".
"Wiley broke new ground by challenging southern myths about a contented and loyal slave population, a self-sacrificing citizenry united in support of states' rights, and a military unmarred by cowardice and vice. Unearthing a wealth of correspondence, government documents, and other firsthand accounts, Wiley brought to center stage the question of popular morale and insisted on its importance in shaping the fate of the Confederacy.
He showed that the Confederacy was racked by dissension and that the heart of the South's problems lay in class resentments and poor governmental policy rather than in military reverses."--BOOK JACKET.
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Confederate States of America, Social life and customs, Social aspects, Afro-Americans, Women, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Social conditions, Soldiers, Confederate States of America. Army, African Americans, History, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, African americans, social conditions, Women, social conditions, Confederate states of america, social conditions, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865Times
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Plain People of the Confederacy
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Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
"Published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the South Caroliniana Society of the University of South Carolina."
Originally published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University, 1943.
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