Private Confederacies
The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers
By James J. Broomall
240 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 5 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5198-9
Published: March 2019 -
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Drawing on personal letters and diaries, Broomall argues that the crisis of defeat ultimately necessitated new forms of expression between veterans and among men and women. On the one hand, war led men to express levels of emotionality and vulnerability previously assumed the domain of women. On the other hand, these men also embraced a virulent, martial masculinity that they wielded during Reconstruction and beyond to suppress freed peoples and restore white rule through paramilitary organizations and the Ku Klux Klan.
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James J. Broomall is assistant professor of history at Shepherd University and director of the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War.
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"This book was a joy to read. Broomall uncovers the thoughts and feelings as well as the lived experiences of his subjects, shedding new light on the ways in which citizen-soldiers responded to the collapse of their world."--Sarah Gardner, Mercer University
"By following the private writings of Southern men through secession, civil war, and defeat, James J. Broomall has written a fresh, lively, and rigorous emotional history of the Confederacy. Private Confederacies reveals how Southern men lived through the eras historians typically use to organize the past into tidy epochs. At the same time, Broomall unflinchingly underscores the pernicious cause for which they fought--slavery and white supremacy--and its violent manifestations in postwar vigilante violence."--Timothy J. Williams, University of Oregon