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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788216403321

Autore

Wetherington Mark V

Titolo

Plain folk's fight [[electronic resource] ] : the Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia / / Mark V. Wetherington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8078-7704-2

1-4696-0365-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Civil War America

Disciplina

975.8/03

Soggetti

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Georgia

Farmers - Georgia - Political activity - History - 19th century

Artisans - Georgia - Political activity - History - 19th century

White people - Georgia - Social conditions - 19th century

White people - Georgia - Politics and government - 19th century

Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects

Georgia Rural conditions

Georgia Social conditions 19th century

Georgia Politics and government 1865-1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PROLOGUE: Plain Folk; 1 On the Cotton Frontier; 2 Into a Revolution; 3 We Will Be Ready to March; 4 The Contest for My Country; 5 I Represent the War; 6 Not in the Flesh Again; 7 We Done Honor to Ourselves; 8 The Land Is Full of Poverty and Misery; 9 We Lift Our Hat to the Wire Grass Region; EPILOGUE: Losing the Peace; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white ""plain folk""--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the



South fought the battles of the region's elites, Wetherington contends that the plain folk in this Georgia region fought for their own self-interest.<BR><BR>Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the popula