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Overview
In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relatively minor strategically, incursions by both Confederate and Union troops disrupted life and threatened the social stability of many communities. Even more disruptive were the internal divisions among western Carolinians themselves. Differing ideologies turned into opposing loyalties, and the resulting strife proved as traumatic as anything imposed by outside armies. As the mountains became hiding places for deserters, draft dodgers, fugitive slaves, and escaped prisoners of war, the conflict became a more localized and internalized guerrilla war, less rational and more brutal, mean-spirited, and personal—and ultimately more demoralizing and destructive.
From the valleys of the French Broad and Catawba Rivers to the peaks of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, the people of western North Carolina responded to the war in dramatically different ways. Men and women, masters and slaves, planters and yeoman, soldiers and civilians, Confederates and Unionists, bushwhackers and home guardsmen, Democrats and Whigs—all their stories are told here.
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By far the most detailed description of circumstances and events ever presented on the region. (Appalachian Journal)Inscoe and McKinney have not only done an excellent job in situating their work within the historiography of both Civil War and Appalachian studies, but their extensive bibliography and detailed endnotes also encourage readers to further explore the effects of war in the mountians. (Journal of Southern History)
A definitive history of western North Carolina in the Civil War. (Southern Cultures)
A refreshing narrative to the body of Civil War historiography. (Virginia Quarterly Review)
This thorough and detailed study provides a comprehensive and sophisticated picture of western North Carolina society during the Civil War. (American Historical Review)
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Introduction Chapter 1. Antebellum Western North Carolina: A Population So Widely Diversified Chapter 2. Secession: To Stand with Either Honor or Safety Chapter 3. Mobilization: The Mountains Are Pouring Forth Their Brave Sons Chapter 4. Unionists: Lincolnite Proclivities—Matters of General Notoriety Chapter 5. Guerrilla Warfare: Rule by Bushwhackers, Tories, and Yankees Chapter 6. Political Dissent: We Are Tired of This Desolating, Ruinous War Chapter 7. Economic Strain: Laboring under Grate Disadvantage Chapter 8. Women at War: Assuming All the Duties of the Sterner Sex Chapter 9. Slavery: Many Negro Buyers in This Part of the Country Chapter 10. Military Incursion and Collapse: Oh! This Is a Cruel World and Cruel People in It Chapter 11. Aftermath: A Peace We Little Expected and Did Not Want Notes Bibliography Index