Lincolnites and rebels : a divided town in the American Civil War /

Lincolnites and rebels : a divided town in the American Civil War / Robert Tracy McKenzie.

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This text presents the story of the Civil War in Knoxville, Tennessee - a perpetually occupied, bitterly divided southern town. It documents the loyalties of more than half of the townspeople, identifies complex patterns of individual decisions, and explores the agonizing personal decisions that the...

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Main Author: McKenzie, Robert Tracy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Politics and government.
Knoxville (Tenn.) > History > 19th century.
Tennessee > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Knoxville (Tenn.) > Politics and government > 19th century.
Knoxville (Tenn.) > History, Military > 19th century.
Tennessee.
Tennessee > Knoxville.
History.
Military history.
Table of Contents:
  • The "metropolis" of East Tennessee
  • Contemplating calamity
  • A town dividing
  • The "reign of terror" unfolds
  • "Prudent silence" and "strict neutrality"
  • Liberation, occupation, and twenty minutes of carnage
  • A new set of strains
  • Retribution and reconciliation.

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