William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War
- ISBN-10
- 0807830275
- ISBN-13
- 9780807830277
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 477
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Eric H. Walther
Description
"By the 1850s Yancey was a key leader in the movement for disunion, proclaiming himself the defender and embodiment of the South. He defied Northern Democrats at their national nominating convention in 1860, rending the party and setting the stage for secession after the election of Abraham Lincoln. Selected to introduce Jefferson Davis in Montgomery as the president-elect of the Confederacy, Yancey went on to serve as the Confederacy's first diplomatic commissioner to England and France and then as a senator from Alabama before his death in 1863, just short of his forty-ninth birthday.".
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