Taking a stand
Subtitle: portraits from the southern secession movement
By: by Walter Brian Cisco.
Publisher: White Mane Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Shippensburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Secession -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes.; Confederate States of America -- Biography.
Description: Until now few books on the Civil War era have adequately and fairly dealt with the Southern impulse for secession.

Taking a Stand recounts the personal stories of how five Southerners came to their own individual decisions to abandon the Union. Thomas Cooper (1759-1839), Robert Bamwell Rhett (1800-1876), James Henley Thomwell (1812-1862), John Tyler (1790-1862), and John Adams Gilmer (1805-1868) - each in their viewpoint and experience represents a current in the movement that culminated in secession. Theirs is the compelling story of the birth of the Confederate cause.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-135) and index.