Bücher von Gordon B. McKinney

Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader

The mountaineer stereotype - violent people who preserve a traditional lifestyle and vote Republican - has been perpetuated through the years. This demonstrates that the impact of the Civil War and the absence of blacks, rather than economic and geographical factors, were responsible for the persistence of Republican voting patterns.

A comprehensive picture of western North Carolina society during the Civil War. Men and women, masters and slaves, planters and yeomen, soldiers and civilians, Confederates and Unionists, bushwhackers and home guardsmen, Democrats and Whigs - all their stories are told here.