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100	1		_aWetherington, Mark V.
245	1	0	_aPlain Folk's Fight : _bThe Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia.
264		1	_aChapel Hill : _bUniversity of North Carolina Press, _c2005.
264		4	_c©2005.
300			_a1 online resource (398 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCivil War America Ser.
505	0		_aIntro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE: Plain Folk -- 1 On the Cotton Frontier -- 2 Into a Revolution -- 3 We Will Be Ready to March -- 4 The Contest for My Country -- 5 I Represent the War -- 6 Not in the Flesh Again -- 7 We Done Honor to Ourselves -- 8 The Land Is Full of Poverty and Misery -- 9 We Lift Our Hat to the Wire Grass Region -- EPILOGUE: Losing the Peace -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
520			_aIn an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white "plain folk--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the South fought the battles of the region's elites, Wetherington contends that the plain folk in this Georgia region fought for their own self-interest. Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the population, feared black emancipation would allow former slaves to move from cotton plantations to subsistence areas like their piney woods communities. Thus, they favored secession, defended their way of life by fighting in the Confederate army, and kept the antebellum patriarchy intact in their home communities. Unable by late 1864 to sustain a two-front war in Virginia and at home, surviving veterans took their fight to the local political arena, where they used paramilitary tactics and ritual violence to defeat freedpeople and their white Republican allies, preserving a white patriarchy that relied on ex-Confederate officers for a new generation of leadership.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aGeorgia - Rural conditions.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aWetherington, Mark V. _tPlain Folk's Fight : The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia _dChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,c2005 _z9780807829639
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aCivil War America Ser.
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=413448 _zClick to View
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