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Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers

Hill’s first opportunity to save the day—and his first opportunity to raise Jackson’s ire

Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination during the Civil War Era (Beverton) Book cover type:Paperback was essential not only forby 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