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Title: The Day of the Confederacy, A Chronicle of the Embattled South
Author: Nathaniel W. Stephenson
THIS BOOK, VOLUME 30 IN THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA
SERIES, ALLEN JOHNSON, EDITOR, WAS DONATED TO
PROJECT GUTENBERG BY THE JAMES J. KELLY LIBRARY OF
ST. GREGORY'S UNIVERSITY; THANKS TO ALEV AKMAN.
THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY, A CHRONICLE OF THE
EMBATTLED SOUTH BY NATHANIEL W. STEPHENSON
New Haven: Yale University Press Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press
1919
CONTENTS
I. THE SECESSION MOVEMENT
II. THE DAVIS GOVERNMENT
III. THE FALL OF KING COTTON
IV. THE REACTION AGAINST RICHMOND
V. THE CRITICAL YEAR
VI. LIFE IN THE CONFEDERACY
VII. THE TURNING OF THE TIDE
VIII. A GAME OF CHANCE
IX. DESPERATE REMEDIES X. DISINTEGRATION

XI. AN ATTEMPTED REVOLUTION
XII. THE LAST WORD
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY
Chapter I.
The Secession Movement
The secession movement had three distinct stages. The first, beginning
with the news that Lincoln was elected, closed with the news, sent
broadcast over the South from Charleston, that Federal troops had
taken possession of Fort Sumter on the night of the 28th of December.
During this period the likelihood of secession was the topic of
discussion in the lower South. What to do in case the lower South
seceded was the question which perplexed the upper South. In this
period no State north of South Carolina contemplated taking the
initiative. In the Southeastern and Gulf States immediate action of
some sort was expected. Whether it would be secession or some other
new course was not certain on the day of Lincoln's election. Various
States earlier in the year had provided for conventions of their people in
the event of a Republican victory. The first to assemble was the
convention of South Carolina, which organized at Columbia, on
December 17, 1860. Two weeks earlier Congress had met. Northerners
and Southerners had at once joined issue on their relation in the Union.
The House had appointed its committee of thirty-three to consider the
condition of the country. So unpromising indeed from the Southern
point of