Lincolnites and Rebels

A Divided Town in the American Civil War

AvRobert Tracy McKenzie

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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At the start of the American Civil War, Knoxville, Tennessee, with a population of just over 4,000, was considered a prosperous metropolis little reliant on slavery. Although the surrounding countryside was predominantly Unionist in sympathy, Knoxville itself was split down the middle as Union and Confederate supporters held political rallies at opposite ends of the town's main street. Following Tennessee's secession, Knoxville soon became famous (or infamous) as a stronghold of stalwart Unionism, thanks to the efforts of a small cadre who persisted in openly denouncing the Confederacy. Throughout the course of the Civil War, Knoxville endured military occupation for all but three days, hosting Confederate troops during the first half of the conflict and Union forces throughout the remainder, with the transition punctuated by an extended siege and bloody battle during which nearly forty thousand soldiers fought over the town. In Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War, Robert Tracy McKenzie tells the story of Civil War Knoxville--a perpetually occupied, bitterly divided Southern town where neighbor fought against neighbor. McKenzie documents the loyalties of more than half of the townspeople and explores the agonizing personal decisions that war made inescapable. Mining a treasure-trove of manuscript collections and civil and military records, McKenzie reveals the complex ways in which allegiance altered the daily routine of a town gripped in a civil war within the Civil War. Following the course of events leading up to the war, occupation by Confederate and then Union soldiers, and the troubled peace that followed the war, Lincolnites and Rebels delves right into the heart of a divided town caught between North and South in the Civil War.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-12-10
Mått:152 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195393934
Utmärkelser:Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award of the Civil War Roundtable of New York Finalist for the Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy

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Robert Tracy McKenzie is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of One South or Many? Plantation Belt and Upcountry in Civil War-Era Tennessee, which received awards from the American Historical Association's Pacific Coast Branch and the Agricultural History Society.

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"Lincolnites and Rebels is based on a vast array of original source material, and it is well organized and well written. Knoxville's Civil War story is full of economic and sociopolitical twists and turns and interesting, opinioned characters. McKenzie does an outstanding job of bringing all facets of this narrative together."--Ben Wynne, The North Carolina Historical Review

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; 1. The Metropolis of East Tennessee ; 2. Contemplating Calamity ; 3. A Town Dividing ; 4. The "Reign of Terror" Unfolds ; 5. "Prudent Silence" and "Strict Neutrality" ; 6. Liberation, Occupation, and Twenty Minutes of Carnage ; 7. A New Set of Strains ; 8. Retribution and Reconciliation ; Afterword ; Appendix ; Notes ; Bibliography

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