Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era (Beverton) James Pula But cooler heads in the

But cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized the demographic and industrial weight pitted against them

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Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (1814–1869) was the most powerful and controversial

Georgia—as evidence of the cruelty and barbarity of the Confederacy

Lincoln’s Informer shows us the unlikely role of a little-known confidant and informant in the Lincoln administration’s military and political successes

Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era (Beverton) James Pula But cooler heads in theby Alys D. Beverton Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New Worlds exceptional republic, unlike other self governing nations in the Western Hemisphere such as Mexico, which struggled with political violence and unrest. Americans used such comparisons to show themselves and the world that democracy in the United States was working as designed. The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 exploded this illusion by showing that