Edited by Joe A. Mobley The second volume of The Papers of Zebulon Baird Vance covers the first full calendar year (1863) of Vance’s governorship. In 1863 the tide of war began to turn against the Confederate States of America. Major defeats at the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg marked the beginning of the end for a potential independent Southern nation. In North Carolina, conscriptions, desertion, inflation, shortages, tax-in-kind, impressments, speculations, Federal raids, and fears that the Emancipation Proclamation would incite slaves to insurrection weakened the Confederacy’s hold on the hearts and minds of the people. Disagreements over states’ rights and habeas corpus added to the populace’s disillusionment with the war. Eventually a movement for seeking peace with the Federal government arose and grew with intensity in the Tar Heel State. Volume 2 of the Vance papers explores all of these and other events during the pivotal year of the great sectional conflict. Hardbound. Pp. xxxix, 436. Illus. Index. (1995) (s) |
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