A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South

by Jonathan Dean Sarris

Book Overview

Most Americans think of the Civil War as a series of dramatic clashes between massive armies led by romantic-seeming leaders. But in the Appalachian communities of North Georgia, things were very different. Focusing on Fannin and Lumpkin counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains along Georgia's northern border, A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South argues for a more localized, idiosyncratic understanding of this momentous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925495
• ISBN13: 9780813925493
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher