The long shadow of the Civil War
Subtitle: southern dissent and its legacies
By: Victoria E. Bynum.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807833810; 9780807898215
Subjects: Unionists (United States Civil War) -- Confederate States of America; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Social aspects; Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945; Confederate States of America -- Social conditions; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence
Description: The Long Shadow of the Civil War 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--Victoria E. Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause. Centered on the concepts of place, family, and community, Bynum's insightful and carefully documented work effectively counters the idea of a unified South caught in the grip of the Lost Cause.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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.