Summary Of A Broken Nation: The Rise And Fall Of The Confederacy

The Confederacy was more than a cluster of succeeded states who wanted to still be able to keep slavery. Anne Sarah Rubin’s work “A shattered Nation: The Rise & Fall of the Confederacy” dives into the sentiment value of the Confederacy to the citizens. In this work she uses journals, diaries, and speeches to construct a consensus of the Confederate people from eighteen sixty-one until eighteen sixty-eight Important to note that Confederacy did not exist with the provocation of war and it never lasted by it. The basis of the Confederacy foundation and principles were driven by wartime fears. Sarah Anne describes the wave of nationalism and sentimentally value that was expressed by Confederates during the eighteen-sixties. The Confederacy foundation as a country was based upon citizens engulfing the idea of collective mind that the United States …show more content…
The sense during eighteen sixties was that Union were to only exploit agricultural resources and force Confederates to be second class citizens. This fear with addition to the polarizing stigma of Yankees’ being businessmen lead to the Confederacy rhetoric identifying them as barbarians with no signs of humanness. Fear of a Yankee invasion was explicitly known as citizen would write accounts of losing all valuables due to destructions of war. In eighteen sixty-four the Union took a more aggressive approach to the war as they brought the hard hand of war to the Confederate civilians. The occupation of Confederate states did force the citizens into unwanted lifestyle, but optimism was still in effect. The national hate towards the Union was ever so growing as oath became a controversial topic of the Confederacy. Benjamin Butler, commander in Louisiana forced gave citizen the option to be citizen of Union or be registered enemies of