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The Making of a Confederate - Walter Lenoir's Civil War (Hardcover)
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The Making of a Confederate - Walter Lenoir's Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: New Narratives in American History Series
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For all the advances of the civil rights movement, and for all the
cultural diversity attending economic prosperity, many white
southerners have been unable to relinquish the Confederate past and
the idea of a heroic, liberty-loving South crushed by power-hungry
Yankees. The Making of a Confederate uses the life of one
man--Walter Lenoir of North Carolina--to explore the origins of
southern white identity and the myriad ambiguities and complexities
embedded in that history.
Lenoir's case is particularly fascinating in the way it
complicates notions about the sources of rabid devotion to the
Confederate cause. Although born into a wealthy slaveholding
family, Lenoir acknowledged the institution's evils and intended to
divest himself of his inherited slaves. Opposed to secession, he
planned in 1860 to move to Minnesota in the free North. With the
war's outbreak, however, everything changed. Lenoir joined the
Confederate army and fervidly supported its cause to the end. His
postwar career reveals how one Confederate coped with bereavement
and a crushing sense of loss, as he refashioned his memory of what
had caused the war and embraced the cult of the Lost Cause. And
while some southerners sank into depression, sought accommodation
with the victors, or opposed the new order through various means,
Lenoir found a fresh purpose by withdrawing to his acreage in the
North Carolina mountains to pursue his own vision of the South's
future, one that called for greater self-sufficiency and a more
efficient use of the land.
For Walter Lenoir and many other Confederates, the war never
really ended. In tracing this compelling story, William Barney
offers new insight into the uses of memory andhow individual
choices transform abstract historical processes into concrete
actions.
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