Plain folk's fight : the Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia / Mark V. Wetherington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wetherington, Mark V.

Series:

Civil War America.

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Georgia.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Farmers--Georgia--Political activity--History--19th century.

Farmers.

Artisans--Georgia--Political activity--History--19th century.

Artisans.

White people--Georgia--Social conditions--19th century.

White people.

White people--Georgia--Politics and government--19th century.

Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Georgia.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States.

Georgia--Rural conditions.

Georgia--Social conditions--19th century.

Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white ""plain folk""--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the South fought the battles of the region's elites, Wetherington contends that the plain folk in this Georgia region fought for their own self-interest.<BR><BR>Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the popula

Contents:

CONTENTS; PROLOGUE: Plain Folk; 1 On the Cotton Frontier; 2 Into a Revolution; 3 We Will Be Ready to March; 4 The Contest for My Country; 5 I Represent the War; 6 Not in the Flesh Again; 7 We Done Honor to Ourselves; 8 The Land Is Full of Poverty and Misery; 9 We Lift Our Hat to the Wire Grass Region; EPILOGUE: Losing the Peace; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-164-2

979-88-908778-6-4

0-8078-7704-2

1-4696-0365-9

OCLC:

476237600