TY - BOOK ID - 77893578 TI - Becoming Confederates : paths to a new national loyalty PY - 2013 SN - 1299464203 0820344974 9780820344973 9781299464209 9780820344966 0820344966 9780820345406 0820345407 PB - Athens : University of Georgia Press, DB - UniCat KW - Change of allegiance KW - Patriotism KW - Loyalty KW - Allegiance KW - Early, Jubal Anderson, KW - Ramseur, Stephen Dodson, KW - Lee, Robert E. KW - United States KW - History KW - Causes. KW - Social aspects. KW - Lee, Robert Edward, KW - Lee, R. E. KW - Ramseur, Dodson, KW - Early, J. A. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893578 AB - In Becoming Confederates , Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early-three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many ways leading up to and during the war. Looking at levels of allegiance to their native state, to the slaveholding South, to the United States, and to the Confederacy, Gallagher shows how these men represent responses to the mid-nineteenthcentury crisis. Lee traditionally has been presented as a rel ER -