A separate Civil War; communities in conflict in the mountain South.081392555X A separate Civil War; communities in conflict in the mountain South. Sarris, Jonathan Dean. U. of Virginia Press 2006 238 pages $22.50 Paperback A nation divided F292 Part of a recent wave of scholarship exploring the unique nature of the Civil War in Appalachia, Sarris (history, North Carolina Wesleyan College North Carolina Wesleyan College is a four-year coeducational, liberal arts college, located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Founded in 1956, the school is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and offers a number of preprofessional programs. ) here focuses on the experiences Fannin and Lumpkin Counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge also Blue Ridge Mountains A range of the Appalachian Mountains extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. It rises to 2,038.6 m (6,684 ft) at Mount Mitchell in the Black Mountains of western North Carolina. of north Georgia in order to unpack See pack. the shifting and competing local, regional, and national loyalties that helped to determine the allegiances of individuals in these areas. He argues that loyalty or disloyalty dis·loy·al·ty n. pl. dis·loy·al·ties 1. The quality of being disloyal; faithlessness. 2. A disloyal act. Noun 1. to the Confederacy Confederacy, name commonly given to the Confederate States of America (1861–65), the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their secession from the Union. depended in most cases upon local conceptions of allegiance, manhood, duty, kinship, and economics, rather than with national clashes of ideology or politics. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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