Ashe County's Civil War : Community and Society in the Appalachian South (Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History)

A study of 19th-century Appalachia and the South, recreating the lives of Ashe County's citizens. The author contends that the experiences of Ashe County's men and women during the Civil War era were shaped as much by their membership in the wider American society as by uniquely local factors.