The changing loyalties of James Henry Hammond -- Fears for the future : a consideration of reluctant Confederates' arguments against secession, the Confederacy, and Civil War -- The speaker of the state legislatures' failure as Confederate leaders -- Disloyalty in the Confederate Congress : the character of Henry Stuart Foote -- The contributions of the Southern Episcopal Church to Confederate unity and morale -- "Personal remarks are hazardous on a crowded riverboat" : Mary Boykin Chesnut and the gossip on Confederate divisiveness -- A consideration of the causes and effects of slave states" leaders' disloyalty to the Confederacy.