wilson2002

@Book{ wilson2002,
	author = {Harold S. Wilson},
	title = {Confederate Industry: Manufacturers and Quartermasters in the Civil War},
	address = {Jackson},
	publisher = {University of Mississippi Press},
	year = 2002,
}

Wilson argues that manufacturing was increasing, and manufacturers gaining in power, on the eve of the Civil War: “The Civil War brought an end to slavery; it also brought an end to an antebellum renaissance in Southern manufacturing” (p. vi). Though manufacturers often opposed extremist states’ rights rhetoric and secession, they aided the Confederacy during the War and then benefitted during Presidential Reconstruction by Johnson’s efforts to build loyal governments with antebellum Unionists (p. x).

p. 147: “The state of Texas rivaled North Carolina in its patronage of manufacturers. The isolated position of the Trans-Mississippi military district strongly encouraged self-sufficiency.” He mentions the Texas Military Board creation (an attempt to raise money by cotton sales to purchase foreign machinery) and the Texas Incorporation Acts (on p. 148) as examples.