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Civil Liberties in the Civil War
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"Tarter, Brent (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:42:51 -0400
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Abraham Lincoln receives (and ever since 1861 has received) quite a bit
of criticism for his restrictions on civil liberties during the American
Civil War. Jefferson Davis receives (and has received) quite a bit less
criticism, but there is important scholarship that demonstrates that the
Confederate government was also pretty severe in its treatment of
dissenting civilians, more so, perhaps, than the United States
government. I strongly recommend Mark E. Neely, Southern Rights:
Political Prisoners and the Myth of Confederate Constitutionalism (1999)
and William W. Freehling, The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate
Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War (2001).
 
Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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