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Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

Author: : Walter L. Fleming

Genre: Literature

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Chapter 1 No.1

Period of Sectional Controversy

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Composition of the Population of Alabama 3

The Indians and Nullification 8

Slavery Controversy and Political Divisions 10

Emancipation Sentiment in North Alabama 10

Early Party Divisions 11

William Lowndes Yancey 13

Growth of Secession Sentiment 14

"Unionists" Successful in 1851-1852 16

Yancey-Pryor Debate, 1858 17

The Charleston Convention of 1860 18

The Election of 1860 19

Separation of the Churches, 1821-1861 21

Senator Clay's Farewell Speech in the Senate 25

Chapter 2 No.2

Secession from the Union

Secession Convention Called 27

Parties in the Convention 28

Reports on Secession 31

Debate on Secession 31

Political Theories of Members 34

Ordinance of Secession Passed 36

Confederate States Formed 39

Self-denying Ordinance 41

African Slave Trade 42

Commissioners to Other States 46

Legislation by the Convention 49

North Alabama in the Convention 53

Incidents of the Session 56

PART II

WAR TIMES IN ALABAMA

Chapter 3 No.3

Military and Political Events

Military Operations 61

The War in North Alabama 62

The Streight Raid 67

Rousseau's Raid 68

The War in South Alabama 69

Wilson's Raid and the End of the War 71

Destruction by the Armies 74

Military Organization 78

Alabama Soldiers: Number and Character 78

Negro Troops 86

Union Troops from Alabama 87

Militia System 88

Conscription and Exemption 92

Confederate Enrolment Laws 92

Policy of the State in Regard to Conscription 95

Effect of the Enrolment Laws 98

Exemption from Service 100

Tories and Deserters 108

Conditions in North Alabama 109

Unionists, Tories, and Mossbacks 112

Growth of Disaffection 114

Outrages by Tories and Deserters 119

Disaffection in South Alabama 122

Prominent Tories and Deserters 124

Numbers of the Disaffected 127

Party Politics and the Peace Movement 131

Political Conditions, 1861-1865 131

The Peace Society 137

Reconstruction Sentiment 143

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