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<p>'Groce offers a gracefully written, impressively researched narrative account of the experience of East Tennessee Confederates during the Civil War era. His analysis raises provocative questions about the socioeconomic foundations of Civil War sympathies in the Mountain South.'-Robert Tracy McKenzie, University of Washington<br>'Scholars of Appalachiaâs Civil War have long awaited Todd Groceâs study of East Tennessee secessionists. I am pleased to report that this ground-breaking study of Southern Mountain Confederates was worth the wait.'-Kenneth Noe, State University of West Georgia</p><p>A bastion of Union support during the Civil War, East Tennessee was also home to Confederate sympathizers who took up the Southern cause until the bitter end. Yet historians have viewed these mountain rebels as scarcely different from other Confederates or as an aberration in the region's Unionism. Often they are simply ignored.<br>W. Todd Groce corrects this distorted view of East Tennessee's antebellum development and wartime struggle. He paints a clearer picture of the regionâs Confederates than has previously been available, examining why they chose secession over union and revealin

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Author

W. Todd Groce

Publisher

University of Tennessee Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572330573

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities

Rating

4.42 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14