Copperhead gore : Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America
Record details
- ISBN: 0253347378
- ISBN: 0253218470
- ISBN: 9781282072770
- ISBN: 9780253347374
- ISBN: 9780253218476
- ISBN: 9780253111906
- ISBN: 1282072773
- ISBN: 0253347378
- ISBN: 0253218470
- ISBN: 0253111900
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages)
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Computer data. - Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:august.19 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Cover; CONTENTS; preface; Introduction; FORT LAFAYETTE; OR, LOVE AND SECESSION; Appendix 1. Speech 1: "State of the Union, "Benjamin Wood, 16 May 1862; Appendix 2. Speech 2: "Restoration of Peace: On the proposition for ageneral convention to devise measures for the restoration ofpeace to our country, "Benjamin Wood, 27 February 1863; Glossary and Explanatory Notes toFort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by EBSCO. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | American Civil War (1861-1865) Pacifism -- Fiction Pacifism United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction United States Multi-User. |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Didactic fiction. Didactic fiction. Fiction History War stories. |
Summary:
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin has often been cited for its galvanizing effect on anti-slavery opposition in the years before the American Civil War. Southern sympathizers in the North (known as Copperheads) never came close to producing anything that matched its influence. One of the more interesting attempts was Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession (1862). The novel -- which features liberal doses of love and lust, intrigue and violence, loyalty and death -- is by no means great literatu.