A Separate Civil War—Communitites in Conflict in the Mountain South

Part of a recent wave of scholarship exploring the unique nature of the Civil War in Appalachia, Sarris (history, North Carolina Wesleyan College) here focuses on the experiences Fannin and Lumpkin Counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains of north Georgia in order to unpack the shifting and competing local, regional, and national loyalties that helped to determine the allegiances of individuals in these areas. He argues that loyalty or disloyalty to the Confederacy depended in most cases upon local conceptions of allegiance, manhood, duty, kinship, and economics, rather than with national clashes of ideology or politics. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jonathan Dean Sarris is Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina Wesleyan College.