A separate Civil War : communities in conflict in the mountain South / Jonathan Dean Sarris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarris, Jonathan Dean, 1967-

Series:

Nation divided.

A nation divided : new studies in Civil War history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountain people--Georgia--Fannin County--History--19th century.

Mountain people.

Mountain people--Georgia--Lumpkin County--History--19th century.

Community life--Georgia--History--19th century.

Community life.

Allegiance--Georgia--History--19th century.

Allegiance.

Violence--Georgia--History--19th century.

Violence.

Fannin County (Ga.)--History, Military--19th century.

Fannin County (Ga.).

Lumpkin County (Ga.)--History, Military--19th century.

Lumpkin County (Ga.).

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

Georgia.

Fannin County (Ga.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Lumpkin County (Ga.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By arguing that the reason for choosing sides had more to do with local concerns than with competing ideologies or social or political visions, Sarris adds a much-needed complication to the question of why men fought in the Civil War.

Contents:

Mountain neighbors : two communities on the frontier of the antebellum South

"This unpatriotic imputation" : mountain images in secession and war

Rebels, traitors, and Tories : loyalty and community in north Georgia, 1862-1863

Hellish deeds in a Christian land : the social dynamics of violence in north Georgia's guerrilla war, 1864-1865

The war they knew : reconstructing community and memory in north Georgia, 1865-1900.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-227) and index.

ISBN:

9781283806169

1283806169

9780813934211

0813934214

OCLC:

821686135