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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy follows four women's stories throughout the American Civil War era - Rose O'Neal Greenhow, Belle Boyd, Emma Edmondson, Elizabeth Van Lew. [4] [2] Rose is a D.C. socialite who used her social standing to spy for the confederacy. [2] [1] Rose Belle Boyd freelanced as a spy for the confederacy as well. [2]
In the United States, Southern Unionists were white Southerners living in the Confederate States of America opposed to secession. Many fought for the Union during the Civil War. These people are also referred to as Southern Loyalists, Union Loyalists, [1] or Lincoln's Loyalists. [2]
As the country expanded westward, slavery's propagation became a major issue in national politics, eventually boiling over into the Civil War. In the years that followed the Civil War, the war was romanticized by historical revisionists to protect three central assertions: that the Confederate cause was heroic, that enslaved people were happy ...
During the war, many Southern Unionists went North and joined the Union armies. Others joined when Union armies entered their hometowns in Tennessee, Virginia, Arkansas, Louisiana, and elsewhere. Around 100,000 Southern Unionists served in the Union Army during the Civil War, with every Southern state except South Carolina raising official ...
The final portion of the book states that repudiation, when Varina stated that the Union was the correct side to achieve victory in the civil war. [ 11 ] Laas concludes that the book's picture of Jefferson Davis , Varina's husband, was "a devastating portrait of a self-absorbed and egotistical man."
Southern gentlemen are also expected to be chivalrous toward women, in words and deeds. [6] [7] Although "culture of honor" qualities have generally been associated with men in the southern United States, women in the region have also been involved, and even exhibited some of the same qualities.
Settlement of the Oklahoma Territory began as a direct result of the Civil War. Southerners escaping Reconstruction, largely populated the southern and eastern regions of the state. The term "Little Dixie" was first used in reference to southeastern Oklahoma during the 20th century. Italian laborers began arriving in eastern Oklahoma in the 1870s.
Ott, Victoria E. Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0809328284. Rable. George. Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Revels, Tracy J. Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women during the Civil War.