Private ConfederaciesPub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0006
James J. Broomall
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Private ConfederaciesPub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0007
James J. Broomall
{"title":"Violence","authors":"James J. Broomall","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"In an effort to re-establish the pre-war paradigm of white mastery over black people, Confederate army veterans founded the Ku Klux Klan. In addition to stoking fear among the black citizenry, the pseudo-military organization of the KKK allowed white southern men to reform soldier-like bonds within the civilian sphere.","PeriodicalId":383724,"journal":{"name":"Private Confederacies","volume":"46 Suppl 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121152337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Private ConfederaciesPub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0008
James J. Broomall
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"James J. Broomall","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The evidence of period diaries contrasted with post-war writings shows that Confederate veterans’ attempts at emotional expression were vastly altered by their wartime experiences. The public face of the Civil War became increasingly sanitized and reductive, while the privately expressed emotions became at once masked by public heroism and confused by private doubts and sadness.","PeriodicalId":383724,"journal":{"name":"Private Confederacies","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117216774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Private ConfederaciesPub Date : 2019-03-11DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0002
James J. Broomall
{"title":"Words","authors":"James J. Broomall","doi":"10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651989.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence found in the diaries and other private modes of expression written by antebellum southern white men show that the writers practiced forms of masculine performance expected of their class. Nineteenth century diarists showed a need to express themselves emotionally. Diary entries capture both the insular world of the family unit and engagements with the outside world, such as records of shooting parties.","PeriodicalId":383724,"journal":{"name":"Private Confederacies","volume":"28 Sup9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130113324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}