The Man Who Started the Civil War James Chesnut Honor and Emotion in the American South 1st Edition by Anna Koivusalo ISBN 1643363069 9781643363066

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ISBN 10: 1643363069
ISBN 13: 9781643363066
Author: Anna Koivusalo

A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War.

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 honor and emotion in elite white southern culture. 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 the cataclysm of civil war. Challenging the traditional view of honor as a code, Koivusalo illuminates honor’s vital but fickle role as a source for summoning, channeling, and expressing emotion in the nineteenth-century South.

The Man Who Started the Civil War James Chesnut Honor and Emotion in the American South 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: 1815–1858: Adopting Honorable Emotion and Learning to Express It

Chapter 1: “Good Habits and Honourable Sentiments”: Parental Advice for the Chesnut Sons, 1815–1836

Chapter 2: “A World Completely Ideal”: Love and Honor, 1836–1858

Chapter 3: “We Must Try to Steer Our Little Ship with Honor and Safety”: Honor, Emotion, and Politics, 1836–1858

Part II: 1859–1861: Raw and Noble Emotion

Chapter 4: “He Ordered the First Gun Fired & He Resigned First”: Beginning the Civil War, 1859–1861

Part III: 1861–1885: Honor and Emotion in Time of Crisis

Chapter 5: “Like a Patriot and a Gentleman”: The Civil War and the Transformation of Antebellum Honor, 1861–1865

Chapter 6: “The Old Legion of Honor”: Outdated Honor, Violent Emotions, and Reconstruction, 1865–1885

Conclusion: “Clean and White Record,” 1885

Appendix: Genealogical Table

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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