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Author McKinney, Gordon B., 1943-

Title Zeb Vance : North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader / Gordon B. McKinney
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 477 pages) : illustrations
Series North Carolina history & culture anthology
North Carolina history & culture anthology
NC LIVE module
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-465) and index
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Subject Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894.
SUBJECT Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894 fast
Vance, Zebulon Baird. swd
Subject United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
SUBJECT United States. Congress. Senate fast
Subject Legislators -- United States -- Biography
Governors -- North Carolina -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local.
Governors
Legislators
Politics and government
Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
Politik
SUBJECT North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092491
North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092497
North Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092498
Subject North Carolina
United States
North Carolina
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003027749
ISBN 0807875937
9780807875933
9780807828656
0807828653
Other Titles North Carolina's Civil War governor and Gilded Age political leader