The Long Shadow of the Civil War: Southern Dissent and Its Legacies

by Victoria E. Bynum and BYNUM

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807833819
• ISBN13: 9780807833810
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"