The Long Shadow of the Civil War : Southern Dissent and Its Legacies /

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Bynum relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, fre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bynum, Victoria E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Unionists (United States Civil War)
Social conditions.
Social aspects.
Politics and government.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY.
Unionistes (Guerre de Secession americaine) > États confederes d'Amerique.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Social aspects.
Unionists (United States Civil War) > Confederate States of America.
United States > Confederate States of America.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Politique et gouvernement > 1865-1950.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 1865-1945.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Southern States > Politics and government > 1865-1950.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Confederate States of America > Social conditions.
Southern States > Social conditions > 1865-1945.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : kinship, community, and place in the old and the new South
  • Guerrilla wars : plain folk resistance to the Confederacy
  • Occupied at home : women confront Confederate forces in North Carolina's Quaker belt
  • Disordered communities : freedpeople, poor Whites, and "mixed blood" families in Reconstruction North Carolina
  • Fighting a losing battle : Newt Knight versus the U.S. Court of Claims, 1870-1900
  • Civil War Unionists as new South radicals : Mississippi and Texas, 1865-1920
  • Negotiating boundaries of race and gender in Jim Crow Mississippi : the women of the Knight family
  • Epilogue : fathers and sons.

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