The Long Shadow of the Civil War : Southern Dissent and Its Legacies /
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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| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


