Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction Gordon B. McKinney 1
1 A New Frontier
Historians, Appalachian History, and the Aftermath of the Civil War Andrew L. Slap 23
2 Reconstruction-era Violence in North Georgia
The Mossy Creek Ku Klux Klan's Defense of Local Autonomy Keith S. Hébert 49
3 UnReconstructed Appalachia
The Persistence of War in Appalachia T. R. C. Hutton 71
4 "The Other War Was but the Beginning"
The Politics of Loyalty in Western North Carolina, 1865-1867 Steven E. Nash 105
5 "Resistless Uprising"?
Thomas Dixon's Uncle and Western North Carolinians as Klansmen and Statesmen Paul Yandle 135
6 Reconstructing Race
Parson Brownlow and the Rhetoric of Race in Postwar East Tennessee Kyle Osborn 163
7 Gathering Georgians to Zion
John Hamilton Morgan's 1876 Mission to Georgia Mary Ella Engel 185
8 "Neither War nor Peace"
West Virginia's Reconstruction Experience Randall S. Gooden 211
9 A House Redivided
From Sectionalism to Political Economy in West Virginia Ken Fones-Wolf 237
10 "Grudges and Loyalties Die So Slowly"
Contested Memories of the Civil War in Pennsylvania's Appalachia Robert M. Sandow 269
11 The Lost Cause That Wasn't
East Tennessee and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia Tom Lee 293
12 "A Northern Wedge Thrust into the Heart of the Confederacy"
Explaining Civil War Loyalties in the Age of Appalachian Discovery, 1900-1921 John C. Inscoe 323
13 Civil War Memory in Eastern Kentucky Is "Predominately White"
The Confederate Flag in Unionist Appalachia Anne E. Marshall 349
List of Contributors 367
Index 371
