The Long Shadow of the Civil War

<i>The Long Shadow of the Civil War</i> relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states — North Carolina Mississippi and Texas — Victoria E. Bynum introduces Unionist supporters guerrilla soldiers defiant women socialists populists free blacks and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause. Centered on the concepts of place family and community Bynum’s insightful and carefully documented work effectively counters the idea of a unified South caught in the grip of the Lost Cause.