This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
McKnight's unprecedented geographical analysis of military tactics and civilian involvement provides a new and valuable dimension to the story of a region facing the turmoil of war.
Borderland in the Civil War
112 A dreamer and a visionary, the young Gibson brought with him a deep commitment to intellectual life as a means to freedom.113 In early 1848, Gibson established the first of several highly regarded schools in Louisville, ...
This book shows how military invasion of this region led to increasing guerrilla warfare, and how regular armies and state militias ripped communities along partisan lines, leaving wounds long after the end of the Civil War.
Terrill, Philip, killed Thompson, William S. Timberlake, George, wounded. Timberlake, Harry. Timberlake, J. H., wounded. Timberlake, J. L., wounded.
Anderson, Fred, and Andrew Cayton. The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500–2000. New York: Viking, 2005. Anderson, Gary C. Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land. Norman: University of Oklahoma ...
This book compiles the letters and Civil War diary of William Lyne Wilson, a confederate soldier whose writings are essentially are essentially a history of the War, from the John Brown incident through several major campaigns up to ...
By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the "borderland" between the free North and the Confederate South.
In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physical boundary and a unifying economic and cultural force that muddied the distinction between southern and northern forms of labor and politics.