Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath

Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath

Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath

Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath

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Overview

Families, communities, and the nation itself were irretrievably altered by the Civil War and the subsequent societal transformations of the nineteenth century. The repercussions of the war incited a broad range of unique problems in Appalachia, including political dynamics, racial prejudices, and the regional economy.

Andrew L. Slap's anthology Reconstructing Appalachia reveals life in Appalachia after the ravages of the Civil War, an unexplored area that has left a void in historical literature.
Addressing a gap in the chronicles of our nation, this vital collection explores little-known aspects of history with a particular focus on the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction periods. Acclaimed scholars John C. Inscoe, Gordon B. McKinney, and Ken Fones-Wolf are joined by up-and-comers like Mary Ella Engel, Anne E. Marshall, and Kyle Osborn in a unique volume of essays investigating postwar Appalachia with clarity and precision.

Featuring a broad geographic focus, these compelling essays cover postwar events in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. This approach provides an intimate portrait of Appalachia as a diverse collection of communities where the values of place and family are of crucial importance.
Highlighting a wide array of topics including racial reconciliation, tension between former Unionists and Confederates, the evolution of post–Civil War memory, and altered perceptions of race, gender, and economic status, Reconstructing Appalachia is a timely and essential study of a region rich in heritage and tradition.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813145358
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 02/18/2014
Series: New Directions in Southern History
Pages: 390
Sales rank: 1,152,688
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Andrew L. Slap, associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University, is the author of The Doom of Reconstruction: The Liberal Republicans in the Civil War Era.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Gordon B. McKinney 1

1 A New Frontier

Historians, Appalachian History, and the Aftermath of the Civil War Andrew L. Slap 23

2 Reconstruction-era Violence in North Georgia

The Mossy Creek Ku Klux Klan's Defense of Local Autonomy Keith S. Hébert 49

3 UnReconstructed Appalachia

The Persistence of War in Appalachia T. R. C. Hutton 71

4 "The Other War Was but the Beginning"

The Politics of Loyalty in Western North Carolina, 1865-1867 Steven E. Nash 105

5 "Resistless Uprising"?

Thomas Dixon's Uncle and Western North Carolinians as Klansmen and Statesmen Paul Yandle 135

6 Reconstructing Race

Parson Brownlow and the Rhetoric of Race in Postwar East Tennessee Kyle Osborn 163

7 Gathering Georgians to Zion

John Hamilton Morgan's 1876 Mission to Georgia Mary Ella Engel 185

8 "Neither War nor Peace"

West Virginia's Reconstruction Experience Randall S. Gooden 211

9 A House Redivided

From Sectionalism to Political Economy in West Virginia Ken Fones-Wolf 237

10 "Grudges and Loyalties Die So Slowly"

Contested Memories of the Civil War in Pennsylvania's Appalachia Robert M. Sandow 269

11 The Lost Cause That Wasn't

East Tennessee and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia Tom Lee 293

12 "A Northern Wedge Thrust into the Heart of the Confederacy"

Explaining Civil War Loyalties in the Age of Appalachian Discovery, 1900-1921 John C. Inscoe 323

13 Civil War Memory in Eastern Kentucky Is "Predominately White"

The Confederate Flag in Unionist Appalachia Anne E. Marshall 349

List of Contributors 367

Index 371

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