Zeb Vance : North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader

Zeb Vance : North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader / Gordon B. McKinney.

In this comprehensive biography of the man who led North Carolina through the Civil War and, as a U.S. senator from 1878 to 1894, served as the state's leading spokesman, Gordon McKinney presents Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-94) as a far more complex figure than has been previously recognized.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKinney, Gordon B., 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Series:North Carolina history & culture anthology.
NC LIVE module.
Subjects:
Vance, Zebulon Baird, > 1830-1894.
Vance, Zebulon Baird, > 1830-1894
Vance, Zebulon Baird.
United States. > Congress. > Senate > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > Senate
1861-1950
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Governors > North Carolina > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Governors
Legislators
Politics and government
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865
Politik
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
North Carolina > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
North Carolina > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
North Carolina
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 What Manner of Man?; 2 A Mountain Boyhood; 3 Scholar and Suitor; 4 Lawyer and Apprentice Politician; 5 Congressman; 6 Secession Crisis; 7 Colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment; 8 Campaign for Governor; 9 Building a Strong North Carolina; 10 Relations with the Confederate Government; 11 Growing Challenges; 12 Protest; 13 Challenges to the Compromise; 14 Campaign for Reelection; 15 Returned to Office; 16 Defeat with Honor; 17 Prisoner; 18 The Politics of Reconstruction; 19 Frustrated Politician; 20 The Battle of Giants; 21 Governor Again.

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