Frank Lawrence Owsley

The book titled ""Secession and Restoration of Louisiana"" by Willie Malvin Caskey is a historical account of Louisiana's secession from the Union during the American Civil War and its eventual restoration to the United States. The author delves into the political and social climate of Louisiana during the mid-19th century, providing an in-depth analysis of the events that led to its secession from the Union in 1861. Caskey covers the various factors that contributed to Louisiana's secession, including the state's economic dependence on slavery, the rise of the Republican Party, and the growing tensions between the North and South. He also discusses the role of prominent Louisiana figures such as Governor Thomas Overton Moore and Senator Judah P. Benjamin in the secession movement. The book then goes on to detail the impact of the Civil War on Louisiana, including the Union's occupation of New Orleans and the state's eventual surrender in 1865. Caskey also explores the efforts made by Louisiana leaders to restore the state to the Union, including the drafting of a new state constitution and the election of a Republican governor. Overall, ""Secession and Restoration of Louisiana"" provides a comprehensive and insightful look into one of the most tumultuous periods in Louisiana's history. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the Civil War, Louisiana history, or the broader issues of secession and restoration in American history. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

This is the exhaustive, definitive study of Southern attempts to gain international support for the Confederacy by leveraging the cotton supply for European intervention during the Civil War. Using previously untapped sources from Britain and France, along with documents from the Confederacy's state department, ""King Cotton Diplomacy"" is the first archival-based study of Confederate diplomacy.

First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials, firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports, to accurately reconstruct the prewar South's large and significant ""yeoman farmer"" middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as ""snuffing the candle,"" ""driving the nail,"" and the ""gander pull."" A new introduction by John B. Boles explains why this book remains the starting point today for the study of society in the Old South.

Describing filibuster activities in both Florida and Texas, American efforts to seize Indian lands, operations against a free black fort in Florida and Andrew Jackson's adventures in Florida, this book adds to the history and historiography of antebellum foreign policy. The authors present the revolutionary activities in the Gulf South and their connection with the expansionist trends of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.

Commerce raiders such as the Alabama and the Florida were a successful component of the Confederacy's naval campaign against the Union. Devices of a lesser navy, these surface cruisers prowled the coastal seas to engage and interrupt vital commerce of their better-equipped, more powerful adversary. The C. S. S. Florida, in just two cruises before her capture, inflicted significant damage to Union cargo and ships, estimated at more than USD 4,000,000. The Florida struggled from the beginning. It had to be financed by a break-away government and built by a neutral Britain, remain supplied by small, out-of-the-way ports of call, and continue on the high seas as a threat to American shipping. Union warships hunting for the Florida caused repeated damage, but the wit and courage of her captains, John Maffitt and Charles Morris, kept her supplied and sound enough to severely weaken American coastal trade. In fact, the U. S. merchant marine fleet was so compromised by its losses to the Confederate raiders and the ensuing high cost of war risk insurance that it never fully recovered its place of prominence. In terms of damage to the economy of the United States, the cruisers were more effective than any other military investment made by the Confederacy. First published in 1965, this new printing offers a popular book in paperback format for the first time.

This examination of the Creek War integrates the struggle with the larger conflict that broke out in 1812 between Britain and the USA. The author argues that the victories in the Gulf region were sufficient to claim the War of 1812 was not a draw, but a decisive American victory.

First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes, planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials, firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports, to accurately reconstruct the prewar South's large and significant ""yeoman farmer"" middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as ""snuffing the candle,"" ""driving the nail,"" and the ""gander pull.