Breaking the heartland
Subtitle: the Civil War in Georgia
By: edited by John D. Fowler and David B. Parker
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Macon, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780881462401
Subjects: Social aspects; Politics and government; Campaigns; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War on the edge : Civil War era politics and its legacy in an Appalachian county / Robert Scott Davis; title: Bitterly divided : Georgia's inner Civil War / David Williams; title: States of dependence and independence in Civil War Georgia / Joseph P. Reidy; title: Georgia lowcountry battlegrounds during the Civil War / Jacqueline Jones; title: "To the youth of the Southern Confederacy" : Georgia's Confederate textbooks / David B. Parker; title: Wars and rumors of wars : hearsay as information on Georgia's Civil War home front / Chad Morgan; title: "The bottomless pit of hell" : the Confederate home front in Bartow County, 1864-1865 / Keith S. Hébert; title: From Gate City to Gotham : Sam Richards chronicles the Civil War in Atlanta / Wendy Hamand Venet; title: "I cannot give the history of this campaign language to describe its suffering" : the Confederate struggle for Atlanta / John D. Fowler; title: Buttressed patriarchs and substitute patriarchs : aid to Georgia's Confederate families during and after the Civil War / Jennifer Lynn Gross; title: Buried at Savannah : Confederate plain folk widows, children, and the Civil War's lost memories / Mark V. Wetherington.