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04754aam a22005538i 4500 001 7DAFC284840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 171206s2018 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2017057901 020 $a 0190851767 020 $a 9780190851767 035 $a (OCoLC)1007063455 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-usu-- 050 00 $a KF7221 $b .H644 2018 084 $a HIS000000 $a LAW060000 $a HIS000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Hoffer, Peter Charles, $d 1944- $e author. 245 10 $a Uncivil warriors : $b the lawyers' civil war / $c Peter Hoffer. 263 $a 1806 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2018. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "In the Civil War, the United States and the Confederate States of America engaged in combat to defend distinct legal regimes and the social order they embodied and protected. Depending on which side has an argument that one accepted, the Constitution either demanded the Union's continuance or allowed for its dissolution. After the war began, rival legal concepts of insurrection (a civil war within a nation) and belligerency (war between sovereign enemies) vied for adherents in federal and Confederate councils. In a "nation of laws," such martial legalism was not surprising. Moreover, many of the political leaders of both the North and the South were lawyers themselves, including Abraham Lincoln. These lawyers now found themselves at the center of this violent maelstrom. For these men, as for their countrymen in the years following the conflict, the sacrifices of the war gave legitimacy to new kinds of laws defining citizenship and civil rights. Uncivil Warriors focuses on these lawyers' civil war: the legal professionals who plotted the course of the war from seats of power, the scenes of battle, and the home front. Both sides in the Civil War had their complement of lawyers, and eminent legal historian Peter Hoffer, provides coverage of both sides' leading lawyers. In positions of leadership, they struggled to make sense of the conflict and, in the course of that struggle, they began to glimpse into a new world of law. It was a law that empowered as well as limited government, a law that conferred personal dignity and rights on those who, at the war's beginning, could claim neither in law. Comprehensive in coverage, Uncivil Warriors focus on the legal side of America's worst conflict will reshape our understanding of the Civil War itself."-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: A Civil War Of, By, and For Lawyers? -- Prologue: The Inseparability of Politics and Law: The First Lincoln-Douglas Debate -- Chapter One: The Contested Legality of Secession -- Chapter Two: A Tale of Two Cabinets and Two Congresses -- Chapter Three: In Re Merryman and its Progeny -- Chapter Four: Was Secession a Crime? -- Chapter Five: An Emancipation Proclamation -- Chapter Six: "A New Birth of Freedom" -- Epilogue: The Lawyers' Reconstruction -- Conclusion: The Lawyers' Civil War in Retrospect. 611 27 $a American Civil War (1861-1865) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351658 611 27 $a Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01754987 651 0 $a United States $x Law and legislation. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Law and legislation. 650 0 $a War and emergency powers $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Secession $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Slaves $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 650 0 $a Postwar reconstruction $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x Civil War Period (1850-1877) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LAW $x Legal History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995636 650 7 $a Postwar reconstruction $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01904331 650 7 $a Secession. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01110536 650 7 $a Slaves $x Emancipation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120540 650 7 $a War and emergency powers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170437 651 7 $a Southern States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244550 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- $t Uncivil warriors. $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 $z 9780190851774 $w (DLC) 2017058845 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030459.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7DAFC284840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search