03675nam 2200757 a 450 991078821640332120220208004256.00-8078-7704-21-4696-0365-9(CKB)3170000000065550(EBL)413448(OCoLC)476237600(SSID)ssj0000222109(PQKBManifestationID)11192580(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222109(PQKBWorkID)10163403(PQKB)10530172(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245450(OCoLC)70159469(MdBmJHUP)muse23552(Au-PeEL)EBL413448(CaPaEBR)ebr10273468(CaONFJC)MIL930870(MiAaPQ)EBC413448(EXLCZ)99317000000006555020050304d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlain folk's fight[electronic resource] the Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia /Mark V. WetheringtonChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20051 online resource (398 p.)Civil War AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-2963-3 1-4696-1520-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-366) and index.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; YIn 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 populaCivil War America.Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)GeorgiaFarmersGeorgiaPolitical activityHistory19th centuryArtisansGeorgiaPolitical activityHistory19th centuryWhite peopleGeorgiaSocial conditions19th centuryWhite peopleGeorgiaPolitics and government19th centuryGeorgiaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Social aspectsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Social aspectsGeorgiaRural conditionsGeorgiaSocial conditions19th centuryGeorgiaPolitics and government1865-1950Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)FarmersPolitical activityHistoryArtisansPolitical activityHistoryWhite peopleSocial conditionsWhite peoplePolitics and government975.8/03Wetherington Mark V1195960MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788216403321Plain folk's fight3759614UNINA