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Notes: Hardback with Dustjacket.Book is Very Good with no creases to cover and all pages clean. Binding is tight and square. Author: Sauers, Richard A.; Tomasak, Peter. Publisher: Univ of Missouri.

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Media Kit One hundred fifty years after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln is thought of as one of the best presidents of the United States. However, most Americans forget that he was elected with only 40 percent of the popular vote. Many Democratic newspapers across the North mistrusted Lincoln's claim that he would not abolish slavery, and the lukewarm support evidenced by them collapsed after Lincoln announced his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the fall of 1862. The advent of a national draft in the spring of 1863 only added fuel to the fire with anti-Lincoln Democrats arguing that it was illegal to draft civilians. Many newspaper editors advocated active resistance against the draft. Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin of Pennsylvania was a staunch supporter of the Lincoln administration. The commonwealth supplied more than 360,000 white soldiers and 9,000 black soldiers during the conflict. However, there was sustained opposition to the war throughout the state, much of it fanned by the pens of Democratic newspaper editors. Though most opposition was disorganized and spontaneous, other aspects of the antiwar sentiment in the state occasionally erupted as major incidents. In The Fishing Creek Confederacy , Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak address the serious opposition to the draft in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in 1864. Egged on by the anti-Lincoln newspaper editors, a number of men avoided the draft and formed ad hoc groups to protect themselves from arrest. The shooting of a Union lieutenant confronting draft evaders in July 1864 resulted in military intervention in the northern townships of the county. The troops arrested more than one hundred men, sending about half of them to a prison fort near Philadelphia. Some of these men were subjected to military trials in Harrisburg, the state capital, that fall and winter. The arrests led to bitter feelings that were slow to die. The military intervention eventually impacted a Pennsylvania gubernatorial election and led to a murder trial. Sauers and Tomasak describe the draft in Pennsylvania and consider how Columbia County fit into the overall draft process. Subsequent chapters take the reader through the events of the summer of 1864, including the interaction of soldiers and civilians in the county, the prison experiences of the men, and the trials. Later chapters cover the August 1865 Democratic rally at Nob Mountain and the effects of the draft episode after the war was over, including its influence on the 1872 election for governor, the 1891 murder trial, and the formation of the official Democratic version of the events, which has been used by historians ever since. The Fishing Creek Confederacy is the first book to address this episode and its aftermath in their entirety. Sauers and Tomasak present the story and try to disentangle the often contradictory nature of the sources and how both amateur and professional historians have used them.

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Publisher
University of Missouri Press
ISBN-10
0826219888
ISBN-13
9780826219886
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Author
Richard A. Sauers, Peter Tomasak
Publication Name
Fishing Creek Confederacy : a Story of Civil War Draft Resistance
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Series
Shades of Blue and Gray Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.1in

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Up
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
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"In the summer of 1864, civilian morale in the North hit bottom. Ulysses S. Grant's army had suffered about 60,000 casualties in the six-week Overland campaign. The other Union armies seemed to be making little or no progress. Going into the service was hardly an appealing option to many northern men, and the military had an increasingly difficult time filling its ranks. Enter three deserters in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Confronted with a posse looking to arrest them, the trio got into a gunfight that left a Union lieutenant mortally wounded. That incident sparked what Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak depict as a gross overreaction on the part of military authorities."-- Journal of Southern History "Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak have done an impressive job of researching the National Archives and local newspapers to uncover the fascinating details about the Fishing Creek Confederacy in 1864. Their insightful and detailed book is by all means the best case study of anti-Lincoln ferment in the North during the Civil War. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature on life and politics in the Union homeland."--Earl J. Hess, author of The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi, "Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak have done an impressive job of researching the National Archives and local newspapers to uncover the fascinating details about the Fishing Creek Confederacy in 1864. Their insightful and detailed book is by all means the best case study of anti-Lincoln ferment in the North during the Civil War. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature on life and politics in the Union homeland ."--Earl J. Hess, author of The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi, "Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak have done an impressive job of researching the National Archives and local newspapers to uncover the fascinating details about the Fishing Creek Confederacy in 1864. Their insightful and detailed book is by all means the best case study of anti-Lincoln ferment in the North during the Civil War. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature on life and politics in the Union homeland ."-Earl J. Hess, author of The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Military / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Dewey Decimal
973.741
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History

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