Zeb Vance North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader
- Author/Creator:
- McKinney, Gordon B., 1943-
- Publication/Creation:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Zeb Vance North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader / Gordon B. McKinney
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Vance, Zebulon Baird,1830-1894
United States.Congress.Senate--Biography
Legislators--United States--Biography
Governors--North Carolina--Biography
North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
North Carolina--Politics and government--1861-1865
North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 What Manner of Man?; 2 A Mountain Boyhood; 3 Scholar and Suitor; 4 Lawyer and Apprentice Politician; 5 Congressman; 6 Secession Crisis; 7 Colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment; 8 Campaign for Governor; 9 Building a Strong North Carolina; 10 Relations with the Confederate Government; 11 Growing Challenges; 12 Protest; 13 Challenges to the Compromise; 14 Campaign for Reelection; 15 Returned to Office; 16 Defeat with Honor; 17 Prisoner; 18 The Politics of Reconstruction; 19 Frustrated Politician; 20 The Battle of Giants; 21 Governor Again
22 United States Senator23 Party Leader; 24 Farmers' Alliance and Reelection; 25 Decline; 26 Monuments and the Man; Notes; Index - Summary:
- In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized. Vance campaigned to keep North Carolina in the Union, but after Southern troops fired on Fort Sumter, he joined the army and rose to the rank of colonel. He was viewed as a champion of individual rights and enjoyed great popularity among voters. But McKinney demonstrates that Vance was not as progre
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (496 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936719260102486
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908681-7-6
0-8078-7593-7 - OCLC Number:
- 476237102
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