The long shadow of the Civil War

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.

subjects: Social aspects,  Social conditions,  History,  Politics and government,  Social aspects of Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877),  Influence,  Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877),  Unionists (United States Civil War),  Reconstruction (u.s. history, 1865-1877),  Southern states, social conditions,  Confederate states of america, social conditions,  Southern states, politics and government

Places: Confederate States of America,  United States,  Southern States

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865,  1865-1945,  1865-1950