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245 14 The man who started the Civil War :|bJames Chesnut, honor,
and emotion in the American South /|cAnna Koivusalo.
264 1 Columbia, South Carolina :|bUniversity of South Carolina
Press,|c[2022]
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504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 "In the pre-dawn hours of April 12, 1861 James Chesnut Jr.
hand-delivered a message to Major Robert Anderson, the
U.S. Army commander at Fort Sumter. Chesnut informed
Anderson that Confederate guns would commence the
bombardment of the fort within the hour. Chesnut then
piloted a small skiff across the dark waters of Charleston
Harbor and delivered a fateful order to the batteries
stationed on James Island. They were to open fire on Fort
Sumter. Chesnut had just ordered the first shots of the
Civil War. In 'The Man Who Started the Civil War'
historian Anna Koivusalo offers the first full-length
biography of South Carolina soldier and politician James
Chesnut Jr. Prior to the Civil War, Chesnut served in both
the South Carolina House and Senate before being appointed
as a US Senator from South Carolina in 1858. Chesnut
resigned his position in the US Senate shortly after the
election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. During the Civil War
he served on the staff of Confederate President Jefferson
Davis and was later appointed brigadier general of South
Carolina reserve troops. Today he is probably best
remembered as the husband of memoirist Mary Boykin Chesnut,
whose wildly popular book 'A Diary from Dixie' remains an
important source for understanding the Civil War era. In
fact, Mary Chesnut had intended to write a biography of
her husband, but she died before she was able. Koivusalo
not only finishes that work, but in so doing deepens and
expands our understanding of antebellum southern society,
the coming of the Civil War, and its aftermath. 'The Man
Who Started the Civil War' is more than just a biography
of Chesnut, it is an emotional history of the man and his
society. It deftly weaves together the history of emotions
and the study of southern honor, showing how honor served
as a dynamic means of creating, refining, and expressing
honorable emotions. Understanding that the emotional
worlds of elite white southerners like James Chesnut is
crucial to understanding the coming of the Civil War.
Focusing on the role of emotion in the coming of the Civil
War does not ignore the central role of slavery. Both
honor culture and honorable emotional expression were
predicated on the existence of slavery. Without
enslavement, there could be no mastery for men like
Chesnut. It was one of the things they feared most. Honor
and emotion were also central to the proslavery argument
and Koivusalo shows how Chesnut and others used emotional
expression to justify slavery and thus preserve the wealth
and privilege of the upper class. But understanding the
how and when of the Civil War requires more than just
acknowledging the role of slavery. Koivusalo helps readers
to understand why political solutions came to be seen as
untenable and why the war came in 1861 rather than earlier
or later. These are questions that have long vexed
historians. Because Chesnut's life spanned the antebellum
and postbellum years, Koivusalo is also able to explore
how the war shifted and shattered pre-war conceptions of
honor and emotional expression. The latter portions of the
book examine Chesnuts' attempts, largely unsuccessful, to
navigate that postwar world"--|cProvided by publisher.
520 "In the predawn hours of April 12, 1861, James Chesnut Jr.
piloted a small skiff across the Charleston Harbor and
delivered the fateful order to open fire on Fort Sumter-
the first shots of the Civil War. In The Man Who Started
the Civil War, Anna Koivusalo offers the first
comprehensive biography of Chesnut and through him a
history of emotion and honor in elite white southern
culture. Rather than static ideas, Koivusalo reveals the
dynamic, and at times fragile, nature of these concepts as
they were tested and transformed from the era of slavery
through Reconstruction. Best remembered as the husband of
Mary Boykin Chesnut, author of A Diary from Dixie, James
Chesnut served in the South Carolina legislature and as a
US senator before becoming a leading figure in the South's
secession from the Union. Koivusalo recounts how honor and
emotion shaped Chesnut's life events and the decisions
that culminated in his ordering of the Confederate attack
on Fort Sumter. Challenging the traditional view of honor
as a code, Koivusalo sheds light on honor's vital but
fickle role as a source for summoning, channeling, and
expressing appropriate emotions in the nineteenth-century
South"--|cProvided by publisher.
588 Description based on online resource; title from digital
title page (viewed on May 27, 2022).
590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic
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