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Confederates Against the Confederacy: Essays on Leadership and Loyalty

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Far from being a monolith with unanimous leadership loyalty to the reason for a separate nation, the Confederacy used to be in truth deeply divided over how to reach independence. Many supposedly loyal leaders, civilian in addition to elected officials, opposed governmental policies on the national and state levels, and their actions in the long run influenced non-give a boost to for military policies. Congressional differences over arming the slaves and bureaucratic squabbles over how to conduct the war disrupted the government and Cabinet of President Jefferson Davis. Rumors of such irreconcilable differences spread all over the South, contributing to an overall decline in morale and give a boost to for the war effort and causing the Confederacy to come except within.

When asked to make sacrifices, civilian leaders found themselves caught in the dilemma of either aiding the Confederacy or losing money through poor utilization of slave labor. To sustain profits, the business and planter classes ceaselessly traded with the enemy. Upon consideration of arming the slaves, many members of Congress proclaimed that the war effort used to be not worth the demise of slavery and preferred instead to take their chances with the Northern government. Cultural leaders, clergy, newspapermen, and men of letters claimed their loyalty to the war effort, but ceaselessly criticized government policies in public. By asking for financial give a boost to and instituting a military draft, the national government infuriated local patriots who wanted to defend their own states more than they desired to defeat the enemy.

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