Confederate Arkansas: The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime
by Michael B. Dougan
University of Alabama Press, 1990 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8449-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-5230-1 | Paper: 978-0-8173-0522-2 Library of Congress Classification E553.D68 Dewey Decimal Classification 320.976704
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book fills a long standing gap in state histories dealing with the period of the Civil War in the western frontier that was Arkansas. Based on newspaper articles, legal documents, letters, diaries, reminiscences, songs, and official military reports, Dougan’s account provides a full picture of the political situation just prior to the war, and set the stage for the state’s entry into the war despite the fate that only a third of the population supported secession.
REVIEWS
“The quality of research is excellent.”
—American Historical Review
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“Dougan’s study of Confederate Arkansas is a fine volume, worth reading, and deserving of its receipt of the Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award for excellence in Confederate history.”
—Civil War History
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD vii
Chapter 1. Introduction: Antebellum Arkansas 1
Chapter 2. State Politics on the Eve of the Sectional Crisis 12
Chapter 3. Arkansas in the Election of 1860 23
Chapter 4. Arkansas and the Union, November, 1860-March, 1861 35
Chapter 5. Arkansas Leaves the Union 47
Chapter 6. The First Year of the War 68
Chapter 7. The Second Year of the War 90
Chapter 8. Wartime Conditions 105
Chapter 9. The War's End 119
NOTES 128
INDEX 155
Confederate Arkansas: The People and Policies of a Frontier State in Wartime
by Michael B. Dougan
University of Alabama Press, 1990 eISBN: 978-0-8173-8449-4 Cloth: 978-0-8173-5230-1 Paper: 978-0-8173-0522-2
This book fills a long standing gap in state histories dealing with the period of the Civil War in the western frontier that was Arkansas. Based on newspaper articles, legal documents, letters, diaries, reminiscences, songs, and official military reports, Dougan’s account provides a full picture of the political situation just prior to the war, and set the stage for the state’s entry into the war despite the fate that only a third of the population supported secession.
REVIEWS
“The quality of research is excellent.”
—American Historical Review
— -
“Dougan’s study of Confederate Arkansas is a fine volume, worth reading, and deserving of its receipt of the Mrs. Simon Baruch University Award for excellence in Confederate history.”
—Civil War History
— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD vii
Chapter 1. Introduction: Antebellum Arkansas 1
Chapter 2. State Politics on the Eve of the Sectional Crisis 12
Chapter 3. Arkansas in the Election of 1860 23
Chapter 4. Arkansas and the Union, November, 1860-March, 1861 35
Chapter 5. Arkansas Leaves the Union 47
Chapter 6. The First Year of the War 68
Chapter 7. The Second Year of the War 90
Chapter 8. Wartime Conditions 105
Chapter 9. The War's End 119
NOTES 128
INDEX 155