"In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South.Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole."--Amazon / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1116/thumbnail.jpg

For the past century and a half historians have conducted more research on the Civil War and Reconstruction than most other subjects. Except for minor mentions and one biography on the governor, the Restored Government of Virginia has been left out of the historiography. The earliest historians or political commentators believed the Restored Government to be a small and ineffectual government that failed to achieve any broad level of support from its constituents. Furthermore, the early works suggested that the governments’ true purpose was to see that western Virginia was separated from Virginia, not to seek the return of Virginia to the Union. While there has been slight variation over the years, historians generally continue to accept this narrative. Through the use of both federal documents and the Restored Governments various publications, this thesis seeks to demonstrate the legality behind the governments’ formation as well as explain how and why the government went from successfully restoring Virginia to being relegated to the dustbin of history. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-291). Also available on the Internet.

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This study examines a frontier businessman and the evolution of his business enterprises in conjunction with the emergence of northern Indiana from its frontier period to the time that it became a settled agricultural region with strong ties to the national economy. The subject is Allen Hamilton, an Irish immigrant who settled in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1823 and remained here until his death in 18514. Hamilton's involvement with the affairs of the state government, the Miami and Potawatomi Indians, retailing, land speculation, the promotion and construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal and numerous plank road and railroad projects, the fur trade and the Indian trade, the second State Bank of Indiana and the creation of the Hamilton ink involved him deeply in the economic development and the political affairs of Indiana and, to a lesser extent, of the North.This study of Hamilton's rise to wealth parallels the development of Indiana and is intertwined with it. At nearly all points in his career Hamilton achieved financial success by meeting the needs of the developing region. He functioned at first as a fur trade .end Indian trader, meeting the needs of the Indians as well as the large Eastern fur merchants. Toward the end of his career he was primarily a banker and promoter of internal improvements, serving both his own interests and those of the expanding white population of northern Indiana for credit and adequate transportation facilities.In order to compete successfully as a businessman, Hamilton found it necessary to become involved with the politics of the region and at times was himself a successful candidate for local and state offices. Generally, however, his political activities were confined to the support of influential men from northern Indiana, several of whom were his business partners. The ability to form judicious alliances which took advantage of both political influence and entrepreneurial talent was a chief factor of Hamilton's success. His business partnerships demonstrated the evolution of his activities and his partners included the most important men in that section of the state. These partnerships were flexible, allowing for significant alteration as new opportunities (such as the milling of wheat) presented themselves and older avenues to wealth (such as the fur trade) dried up. As Hamilton outgrew the older partnerships he created others that reflected not only the need for a different type of expertise in his partner but also his own changed economic, social and political situation. One of the consistencies of Hamilton's partnerships was their diversification which made them more fluid in nature and more capable of capitalizing on new opportunities.Hamilton's rise to wealth was significant not only to himself. His wealthy Irish origins had set for him a model to which the wealthy should aspire. Correspondingly, he was a social leader in Fort Wayne and nurtured in his offspring a respect for the highest of goals in education and civic responsibility. He was a patrician and a symbol not only of the opportunities of the West, but also of the fact that the West was far from being an area inhabited by social equals. Indeed, Hamilton's extensive commitment to land speculation was more than simply a means ofachieving wealth. The possession of large tracts of land symbolized, for Hamilton, the recreation of his family's former status in Ireland, powerfully augmenting the traditional status gained through land ownership in the United States.Through Allen Hamilton one may view not only the development of Indiana in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, but also a pattern of economic maturation that was often experienced in areas far to the east and west of the state.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 138, 4 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-137).

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: R. Bruce Bickley, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 26, 2003). Includes bibliographical references.

During the American Civil War Wilmington, North Carolina and the Bermudian ports of St. Georges and Hamilton served as vital links in a complex trading network that developed to facilitate the exchange of southern agricultural products for war materials and civilian merchandise through a Union blockade of the Confederacy. Although that material contributed significantly to the Confederate war effort, Anglo-Confederate blockade running has received limited scholarly attention. Much of the associated literature is based on memoirs rather than scholarship and does not accurately, reflect that necessarily clandestine trade. The primary goal of this thesis is to produce a more comprehensive and detailed picture of blockade running, the cargoes carried through the Union blockade and the powerful steam vessels that made Anglo-Confederate commerce possible. Unlike previous treatments, this thesis combines the results of both archival and archaeological research. The results illustrate the evolution of strategies involved in both establishing and maintaining the blockade and those developed for running the blockade. Assessment of the vessel remains and historical data associated with the construction and procurement of steamers identifies the vessel types and confirms that blockade runners adapted extant technology. Contrary to the popularly held impression, no technological innovations were specifically developed to address the demands of the trade. The spatial distribution of wrecks and the minimal amount of cultural material surviving in association with them, provides strong evidence that cargoes were more valuable than the vessels. That premise influenced the strategy adopted by blockade runners. While Confederate salvors left little evidence of cargo, historical research revealed a wealth of new insight into the specific nature of that material. This new evidence provides a more accurate and detailed picture of Anglo- Confederate blockade running and the strategies, ships and cargoes that made blockade running between Wilmington and Bermuda a success.