Deep in the Piney Woods: Southeastern Alabama from Statehood to the Civil War, 1800-1865

ISBN-13: 9780817319977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 264 str.

Tommy Craig Brown

Opis

A chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama's most overlooked and least studied regions

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• 1. “The Wilderness is All Before You”: Settlement
• 2. “Of All the Hardy Sons of Toil”: Class and Race in the Piney Woods
• 3. “Let the Union Stand”: Piney Woods Politics, 1819–1845
• 4. “Disruption of the Ties Which Bind Us Together”: The Politics of Secession, 1845–1861
• 5. “From the Lights Before Us I Think War is Close at Hand”: The War Begins
• 6. “I Have No One to Assist Mee on Earth”: The Piney Woods War, 1862
• 7. “I Feel Like We Are Almost Ruined”: The War Takes Its Toll, 1863–1865
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index