Aaron Charles Sheehan-De Summary

In this book, Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean studies the experience of confederate soldiers from Virginia. In the book he explains the reason that many people were sucked into the war was to protect their family and property. Sheehan-Dean also goes into the fighting that occurred. He says that many fought and it reshaped the way Virginia worked. The author then goes on to relate the fighting to the formation of social classes and race relations. He describes the goals of soldiers fighting for the confederacy one of them being to keep slavery alive in the south. Some extreme southerners wanted to win the war so they could become their own country under their own government.

3. Aaron Charles Sheehan-Dean is a southern studies professor in the Department

This book brings to light the experience of the civil war from the South’s view and why they were fighting to protect the south. My paper will bring this into account when discussing why the war had to be fought because the south was not going to give up their rights easily. It also shows that they were willing to secede if the north would not let them keep the rights they had.

1.Hamilton, Holman. Prologue to Conflict : The Crisis and Compromise of 1850. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), EBSCOhost (accessed November 28, 2017).

2. In this book, Holman Hamilton describes the conflict of 1850 between the north and southern states for the slave states. He says that this was a setup for the the civil war which happens ten years later. When the compromise came about conflicts rose. The north was afraid of the south’s extension of slavery while the south feared a threat to the balance of government if their were more free states than slave states. He states that the rise of tension between the north and the south was caused by the compromise of 1850. In the book, Hamilton references the actual compromise of 1850 and proves points using quotes taken from biographers of the compromise of