By Kenneth W. Noe,Jason J. Battles,Harriet E. Amos Doss,Bertis English,Michael W. Fitzgerald,Jennifer Lynn Gross,Patricia A. Hoskins,Victoria E. Ott,Terry L. Seip,Ben H. Severance,Kristopher A. Teters,Jennifer Newman Treviño,Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins,Brian Stee
During the 1st iciness of the warfare, accomplice squaddies derided the lads of an Alabama accomplice unit for his or her yellow-trimmed uniforms that allegedly resembled the plumage of the yellow-shafted flicker or “yellowhammer” (now the Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus, and the country chook of Alabama). the warriors’ nickname, “Yellowhammers,” got here from this epithet. After the struggle, Alabama veterans proudly wore yellowhammer feathers of their hats or lapels while attending reunions. Celebrations during the kingdom have usually improved on that pageantry and glorified the figures, occasions, and battles of the Civil warfare with occasionally doubtful cognizance to ancient truth and little understanding of these who supported, resisted, or tolerated the struggle off the battlefield.
Many books approximately Alabama’s function within the Civil warfare have targeted severe awareness at the army and political background of the struggle. The Yellowhammer War likewise examines the army and political background of Alabama’s Civil conflict contributions, however it additionally covers components of research often missed by way of centennial students, corresponding to race, girls, the house entrance, and Reconstruction. From Patricia A. Hoskins’s examine Jews in Alabama in the course of the Civil warfare and Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño’s exam of white women’s attitudes in the course of secession to Harriet E. Amos Doss’s learn of the response of Alabamians to Lincoln’s Assassination and Jason J. Battles’s essay at the Freedman’s Bureau, readers are taken care of to a broader canvas of issues at the Civil battle and the state.
CONTRIBUTORS
Jason J. Battles / Lonnie A. Burnett / Harriet E. Amos Doss / Bertis English / Michael W. Fitzgerald / Jennifer Lynn Gross / Patricia A. Hoskins / Kenneth W. Noe / Victoria E. Ott / Terry L. Seip / Ben H. Severance / Kristopher A. Teters / Jennifer Ann Newman Treviño / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins / Brian metal Wills
Published in Cooperation with the Frances S. Summersell heart for the research of the South
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