Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy (Southern Classics) - Softcover

Moore, Albert Burton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570031525 ISBN 13: 9781570031526

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1996

Synopsis

Using conscription to illustrate a central paradox of the Confederacy, this work examines the system's daily operations, troublesome substitution, and exemption procedures, and ultimate collapse. William Garrett Piston's introduction places the volume in its historical context.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A standard source for more than three generations of Civil War scholars, Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy remains the authoritative study of the Confederate draft. In this landmark book, Albert Burton Moore uses conscription to illustrate a central paradox of the Confederacy: in order to protect its commitment to states' rights, the Confederacy was forced to adopt tactics of centralized government. Charting the strength of Confederate forces before and after conscription's implementation in 1862, Moore examines the system's daily operations, troublesome procedures for substitutions and exemptions, and ultimate collapse. He conveys the controversy surrounding conscription by quoting from acerbic and sometimes eloquent arguments for and against conscription put forth by governors, congressmen, newspaper editors, and soldiers. Although Moore credits Confederate conscription with a high degree of success, he blames it for causing friction between state governors and President Jefferson Davis, dissension between state and national judicial systems, and bureaucratic problems of colossal proportions. William Garrett Piston's new introduction places the volume in its historical context and underscores one of the most remarkable features of the study - Moore's forthright admission that a large number of Southerners did not support the Confederacy.

About the Author:

Albert Burton Moore (1887-1967) was chair of the history department at the University of Alabama.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1570031525
• ISBN 13: 9781570031526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380