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The Rhetoric Of The Civil War: Literary Devices Of The North And South, Kelsey Williams Oct 2017

The Rhetoric Of The Civil War: Literary Devices Of The North And South, Kelsey Williams

Senior Honors Theses

While both Northern and Southern antebellum writers employed religious imagery for their persuasive purposes, their specific rhetoric differed: Timrod pictured the South romantically, as the revival of Camelot even after the Confederacy’s death; Stowe, heavily influenced by her personal background, enacted emotion accompanied by an appeal to ethics in her fictional apologetic for the end of slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Although history handed both authors the opportunity to affect the nation’s trajectory, only Stowe achieved this feat, and she owes her triumph over Timrod, the victory of the North over the South, to her emotional rhetoric concerning slavery. …


Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, December 28, 1864, W. E. Johnson Dec 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, December 28, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, December 18, 1864, W. E. Johnson Dec 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, December 18, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, December 11, 1864, W. E. Johnson Dec 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, December 11, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, December 4, 1864, W. E. Johnson Dec 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, December 4, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, November 27, 1864, W. E. Johnson Nov 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, November 27, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, November 20, 1864., W. E. Johnson Nov 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, November 20, 1864., W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, November 10, 1864, W. E. Johnson Nov 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, November 10, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, November 6, 1864, W. E. Johnson Nov 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, November 6, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, October 26, 1864, W. E. Johnson Oct 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, October 26, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To W.E. Johnson, Sr., October 16, 1864, W. E. Johnson Oct 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To W.E. Johnson, Sr., October 16, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, October 9, 1864., W. E. Johnson Oct 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, October 9, 1864., W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To H.W. Conner & Co., September 28, 1864, W. E. Johnson Sep 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To H.W. Conner & Co., September 28, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

This item contains on one leaf: a letter from W.E. Johnson to H.W. Conner & Co., September 28, 1864 and the reply, from H.W. Conner (Co.) to W.E. Johnson, November 2, 1864.


Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, September 27, 1864, W. E. Johnson Sep 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, September 27, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, September 18, 1864, W. E. Johnson Sep 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, September 18, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To W.E. Johnson, Sr., September 11, 1864, W. E. Johnson Sep 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To W.E. Johnson, Sr., September 11, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, August 29, 1864, W. E. Johnson Aug 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, August 29, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, July 24, 1864., W. E. Johnson Jul 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, July 24, 1864., W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, July 17, 1864, W. E. Johnson Jul 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, July 17, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Lt. R.J. "Robt" Cunningham, June 18, 1864, W. E. Johnson Jun 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Lt. R.J. "Robt" Cunningham, June 18, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To W.E. Johnson, Sr., May 29, 1864, W. E. Johnson May 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To W.E. Johnson, Sr., May 29, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, March 29, 1864, W. E. Johnson Mar 1864

Letter: W.E. Johnson To Anne Johnson, March 29, 1864, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

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Diary: W.E. Johnson, W. E. Johnson Jan 1861

Diary: W.E. Johnson, W. E. Johnson

W.E. Johnson Papers

This file contains the scanned images of W.E. Johnson's diary that he kept as prisoner-of-war through 1864. Two versions of the scans are posted here: the main version a reduced-size PDF (13.5MB). An optimized PDF version (45.6MB) of the diary is also available for download on this page.

An automatically-updating draft transcription of the diary is available.