Southern rights : political prisoners and the myth of Confederate constitutionalism / Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1999
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Title
Southern rights : political prisoners and the myth of Confederate constitutionalism / Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Published
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.
Call Number
E487 .N44 1999
ISBN
0813918944 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
vii, 212 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)41076301
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-204) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
Pt. 1
Liberty and Order
7
1The Rogue Tyrant and the Premodern State
11
2Alcohol and Martial Law: The Problem of Order in the Confederacy
29
Pt. 2
The Confederate Bench and Bar
43
3Liberty and the Bar of the Confederacy
47
4"Unaffected by ... the Condition of our Country": The Peculiar Jurisprudence of Richmond M. Pearson
64
5Ghosts of the Dead Habeas Corpus: The Habeas Corpus Commissioners
80
Pt. 3
Dissent
99
6The Politics of Pastoralism in East Tennessee
103
7Persistent Unionism in Western Virginia and North Carolina
118
8A Provincial Society at War: Civil Liberties in "The other Confederacy"
134
Pt. 4
Jefferson Davis and History
151
9Jefferson Davis and the Writ of Habeas Corpus
153
Conclusion: The Paradox of Confederate Historiography
168
Notes
175
Index of Political Prisoners
205
General Index
207