The long shadow of the Civil War
Subtitle: southern dissent and its legacies
By: Victoria E. Bynum
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780807833810
Description: "In The Long Shadow of the Civil War, Victoria 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, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of the South and of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause." "Examining regions within the South where the inner civil wars of deadly physical conflict and intense political debate continued well into the era of Reconstruction and beyond, Bynum explores three central questions. How prevalent was support for the Union among ordinary Southerners during the Civil War? How did Southern Unionists and freedpeople experience both the Union's victory and the emancipation of slaves during and after Reconstruction? And what were the legacies of the Civil War - and Reconstruction - for relations among classes and races and between the sexes, both then and now?" --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : kinship, community, and place in the old and the new South; title: Guerrilla wars : plain folk resistance to the Confederacy; title: Occupied at home women confront Confederate forces in North Carolina's Quaker belt; title: Disordered communities : freedpeople, poor whites, and "mixed blood" families in Reconstruction North Carolina; title: Fighting a losing battle : Newt Knight versus the U.S. Court of Claims, 1870-1900; title: War Unionists as new South radicals Mississippi and Texas, 1865-1920; title: Negotiating boundaries of race and gender in Jim Crow Mississippi : the women of the Knight family; title: Epilogue : fathers and sons.