Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War

by John W. Shaffer

Book Overview

A border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. The wounds of the Civil War cut most bitterly in the border states, that strip of America from Maryland to Kansas, where conflicting loyalties and traditions ripped apart communities, institutions, and families. Barbour County, in the mountainous Northwest of (West) Virginia, is a telling microcosm of the deep divisions which both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937058734
• ISBN13: 9780937058732
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 8.7"