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