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Taking a Stand

by Walter Brian Cisco · 1998

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Until now few books on the Civil War era have adequately and fairly dealt with the Southern impulse for secession.

Taking a Stand recounts the personal stories of how five Southerners came to their own individual decisions to abandon the Union. Thomas Cooper (1759-1839), Robert Bamwell Rhett (1800-1876), James Henley Thomwell (1812-1862), John Tyler (1790-1862), and John Adams Gilmer (1805-1868) - each in their viewpoint and experience represents a current in the movement that culminated in secession. Theirs is the compelling story of the birth of the Confederate cause.

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war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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19th century19th centuryMore like thisLess of thiscivil warcivil warMore like thisLess of thisAmerican SouthAmerican SouthMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 151 pages

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