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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811208203321

Autore

Phillips Christopher <1959 November 1->

Titolo

The Civil War in the border South / / Christopher Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, California : , : Praeger, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

979-82-16-06133-5

0-275-99502-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Reflections on the Civil War era

Disciplina

973.7/3

Soggetti

United States History

Border States (U.S. Civil War)

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

United States Social conditions 1865-1918

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 (pages 117-151) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Slavery, union, and neutrality -- And the war came -- And the Yankees came -- The Confederacy's border gambit -- The American tornado -- The darker side of war -- Epilogue: the southern cross.

Sommario/riassunto

By studying the characteristics of those positioned along this fault line during the Civil War, the centrality of the war issue of slavery, which border residents long eschewed as being divisive, became apparent. This book explains how the process of Sout