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The Long Civil War in the North Georgia Mountains - Confederate Nationalism, Sectionalism, and White Supremacy in Bartow County, Georgia (Paperback)
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The Long Civil War in the North Georgia Mountains - Confederate Nationalism, Sectionalism, and White Supremacy in Bartow County, Georgia (Paperback)
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Civil War historians have long noted that support for the
Confederacy in the antebellum South tended to align with geography:
those who lived in towns, along railroads, and on land suited for
large-scale farming tended to side with the Confederacy, while
those who lived a more isolated existence and made their livings by
subsistence farming and bartering usually remained Unionist. Bartow
County in northwest Georgia, with its distinctive terrain of
valley, piedmont, and Appalachian hill country, is an ideal
microcosm to examine these issues. Keith S. Hebert examines the
rise and precipitous fall of Confederate nationalism in Bartow
County, a shared experience among many counties in the upland
South. Hebert's story tells us much about the war's origins,
Confederate defeat, and the enduring legacy of white supremacy in
these rural areas. Although no major battles were fought in Bartow
County, Sherman's Atlanta Campaign saw Federal troops occupying the
area, testing the loyalties of Bartow County soldiers serving in
the Army of Tennessee and elsewhere. As the home front collapsed,
they had to decide if they should remain in the army and fight or
return home to protect their families and property. Locals hardly
knew whom to trust as Unionists and Confederates-from both home and
afar-engaged in guerilla warfare, stole resources from citizens,
and made the war a confusing trap rather than a struggle for an
emergent nation. Drawing on the primary source record of
newspapers, letters, diaries, and official documents from the
county, Hebert compellingly works personalized vignettes into a
scholarly study of developments from the advent of war through
Reconstruction and the decades following. The Long Civil War in the
North Georgia Mountains solidifies recent scholarship about the war
in southern Appalachia and opens a window into a community deeply
divided by civil war.
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