The making of a southerner
Subtitle: William Barclay Napton's private Civil War
By: Christopher Phillips.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826218254
Subjects: Napton, William Barclay, -- 1808-1883; Napton, William Barclay, -- 1808-1883 -- Political and social views; Judges -- Missouri -- Biography; Slaveholders -- Missouri -- Saline County -- Biography; Slavery -- Political aspects -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century; Saline County (Mo.) -- Biography; Missouri -- Politics and government -- To 1865; Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography; Confederate States of America -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Drawn from personal journals kept for more than fifty years and from a vast professional and family correspondence, the life story of William Barclay Napton offers an important perspective on the issues and events that turned this northerner into an avowed proslavery ideologue and finally into a full southerner"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The refugee; title: The Virginian; title: Making Eden; title: Mastering new worlds; title: Judging slavery; title: The war within; title: Napton's private war; title: The southerner; title: Biographical information on Napton's children.