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Mountain Partisans : Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865 by Sean O'Brien (1999, Hardcover)

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0275964302
ISBN-13
9780275964306
eBay Product ID (ePID)
661145

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Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Mountain Partisans : Guerrilla Warfare in the Southern Appalachians, 1861-1865
Publication Year
1999
Subject
United States / State & Local / General, Military / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Sociology / Rural
Type
Textbook
Author
Sean O'brien
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-056073
Reviews
"Mr. O'Brien has done a first rate job with this work...I would recommend Mountain Partisans as a springboard for further research in this neglected area of American history. It is a good book."- The Civil War Courier, "A very good account of the irregular fighting in the Appalachian regions of Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama during the Civil War..."- The NYMAS Newsletter, "O'Brien has offered a well-written analysis that attempts to fill a significant gap in Civil War scholarship."- Appalachian Journal, "[T]his book will prove quite useful as a reference work for professional historians and for local historians and students who will be able to use it to launch their own research."- The Journal of Military History, "O'Brien has offered a well-written analysis that attempts to fill a significant gap in Civil War scholarship." Appalachian Journal
Dewey Edition
21
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
973.7/45
Table Of Content
Prologue: Blood in the Snow Introduction: War in the Mountains Western North Carolina "The Best We Could" "Nothing More than Mountain Robbers" "Where Yankees Never Come" "Power Unrestrained" East Tennessee "Bleeding at Every Pore" "There Are Meaner Men" Community at the Breaking Point North Alabama "Destroying Angels" "Prisoners of Hope" Blood in the Sky North Georgia "Union Men to the Core" "In the House of Joseph" "The Red-Headed Beast from Georgia" "Guerrilla Holes" West Virginia Death of a Dream Legacy Survivors Works Cited Index
Synopsis
This is the story of a civil war within the Civil War. Many mountain whites in Southern Appalachia opposed the Confederacy, especially when the South's conscription and impressment policies began to cause severe hardships. Deserters from the Rebel army hid in the mountains and formed guerrilla bands that terrorized unprotected Confederate homesteads. Violence escalated as Rebel guerrillas fought back. The conflict soon took on some of the ugliest aspects of class warfare between poorer mountain whites, who were usually Unionists, and the more well-to-do mountain property owners, who supported the Rebels. Mountain Partisans penetrates the shadowy world of Union and Confederate guerrillas, describes their leaders and bloody activities, and explains their effect on the Civil War and the culture of Appalachia. Although it did not alter the outcome of the war, guerrilla conflict affected the way the war was fought. The Union army's experience with guerrilla warfare in the mountains influenced the North's adoption of hard war as a strategy used against the South in the last two years of the war and helped shape the army's attitude toward Southern civilians. Partisan warfare in Southern Appalachia left a legacy of self-imposed isolation and distrust of outsiders. Wartime hatreds contributed to a climate of feuds and extralegal vigilantism. The mountain economy never recovered from the war's devastating effects, laying the groundwork for the region's exploitation and impoverishment by outside corporations in the early 20th century.
LC Classification Number
E470

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This book is a must-read for any student of the War,1861-65.The author has done an incredibly thorough research of a very complicated time and place.He is very fair to both sides. Murderers on both sides are evenly covered,including the neither side predators who drifted along victimizing civilians caught in the middle. Absolutely one of the best books written on a backwater subject.
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