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The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion by [John C. Inscoe, Albert Churella, Angela Esco Elder, Anne J. Bailey, Anthony Gene Carey, Barton A. Myers, Brad Wood, Brian Brown, Bruce E. Stewart, Bruce Smith, Caroline Dillman, Chris Wilkinson, Clarence L. Mohr, Dan Childs, Dan Du, David McGee, David Wiggins, David S. Williams, David Williams, Debra van Tuyll, Denise Wright, Diane Trap, Edwin Jackson, Franklin Sammons, Garrett W. Silliman, George Justice, Glenna Schroeder-Lein, Gordon L. Jones, Heather Whittaker, Hubert H. McAlexander, Hugh Ruppersburg, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, James Turner, James Welborn, Jarrod Atchison, Jason Manthorne, Jeffrey Young, John D. Fowler, Jun Hyun, Katherine Brackett, Katherine Rohrer, Keith S. Bohannon, Kevin Young, Kyle Osborn, Laura McCarty, Laverne Hill, Leah Richier, Levi Collins, Lisa Tendrich Frank, Melvin Hill, Robert Wilson, Robert Scott Davis, Samuel B. McGuire, Sean H. Vanatta, Stephen Davis, Stephen Huggins, Steve Longcrier, Susan Eva O'Donovan, Vanessa P. Tome, William Harris Bragg, Richard Houston, Cindy Schmid]

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Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.

The Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed the course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the upheaval and destruction inflicted on the state and the life span of the Confederacy. While the dramatic events of 1864 are fully documented, this companion gives equal coverage to the many other aspects of the war—naval encounters and guerrilla warfare, prisons and hospitals, factories and plantations, politics and policies— all of which provided critical support to the Confederacy’s war effort. The book also explores home-front conditions in depth, with an emphasis on emancipation, dissent, Unionism, and the experience and activity of African Americans and women.

Historians today are far more conscious of how memory—as public commemoration, individual reminiscence, historic preservation, and literary and cinematic depictions—has shaped the war’s multiple meanings. Nowhere is this legacy more varied or more pronounced than in Georgia, and a substantial part of this companion explores the many ways in which Georgians have interpreted the war experience for themselves and others over the past 150 years. At the outset of the sesquicentennial these new historical perspectives allow us to appreciate the Civil War as a complex and multifaceted experience for Georgians and for all southerners.

A Project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia; Published in Association with the Georgia Humanities Council and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO.

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The Civil War in Georgia uses selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia to cover the Georgia Civil War experience and provide the latest scholarship discussing how the Civil War affected individual states. . . .A fine guide, this is a pick for any Civil War or Southern history holding.

-- Midwest Book Review

That the text is so seamless is a tribute to the strong hand of project editor John C. Inscoe, Professor of History at the University of Georgia and onetime editor of the Georgia Historical Quarterly. . . . Those looking for a sophisticated, concise overview of Georgia’s role in the American Civil War. . .would do well to begin here.

-- The Civil War Monitor

An excellent book for anyone interested in the home front during the war.

-- NYMAS Reviews

John C. Inscoe has skillfully edited and arranged seventy-three topics into three sections: ‘Prelude to War,’ ‘The War Years,’ and ‘The War’s Legacy.’ The result is a valuable resource that provides concise information on major social, political, and military events from the antebellum era through Reconstruction in the ‘Empire State of the South.’

-- Brett J. Derbes ― Journal of Southern History --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

About the Author

ANGELA ESCO ELDER is the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech. Her research interests focus on the antebellum and Civil War era, with an emphasis on gender, emotion, family, and trauma in the American South.

ANNE J. BAILEY is a professor of history at Georgia College and State University. Her many books include War and Ruin and The Chessboard of War.

ANTHONY GENE CAREY is an assistant professor of history at Auburn University.

BRUCE E. STEWART is an associate professor of history at Appalachian State University and the author or editor of several books, most recently Modern Moonshine: The Revival of White Whiskey in the Twentieth-First Century.

DAVID S. WILLIAMS is director of the Honors Program and Meigs Professor of Religion at the University of Georgia, where he has taught since 1989. He is the author of two previous books in religious studies. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005ISQ7G0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Georgia Press; Illustrated edition (September 1, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 8402 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 351 pages

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TIMOTHY

WELL WORTH THE $

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ALOT OF NEW INFO ABOUT THE GOOD FOLKS OF THE PEACH STATE SURVIVING THE WAR YEARS

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MJ

A well rounded, researched window into Georgia's wartime experience

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This book is extremely well researched and gives the reader a fuller, deeper, and more expansive view of the War and it effects on Georgia. One of the best well rounded full experience reads on the subject. From war front to home front its a wonderful window into the past.

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Little known GA battlefields.

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Very good, highlights little known battle fields.

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It was informative but not everything the description said.

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Georgia and the Civil War, Politics, Operations, Life

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"Prof. Inscoe (Georgia), author of Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina and Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South, divides the book into three broad sections, "Prelude to War", "The War Years", and "The War's Legacy". Each section is further divided into several sub-sections; "The War Years", for example, includes "Military Actions," "Military Support," and "The Home Front". These subsections are filled with short essays or side-bars on a variety of subjects written by various specialists. The result is a total of over 70 discussions or profiles on subjects such as "Georgia in 1860", "Andrews Raid", "Battle of Resaca", "Sherman's March to the Sea", "Confederate Veterans' Organizations", "Unionists", "Slave Narratives", "Cemeteries", "Women", and so forth. Although occasionally some essays have a "Lost Cause" resonance, on the whole they are even-handed, and in many cases even ground breaking, such as the suggestion that operations by Confederate irregulars in the state may have caused more harm than Sherman's alleged depredations. "

For the balance of the review, see StrategyPage.Com

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Minimalist introduction to the Civil War

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2014

This book is a collection of about 70 articles culled from the website of the New Georgia Encyclopedia that pertain to the Civil War in Georgia. The articles are grouped as Prelude to War, The War Years, and The War’s Legacy, but are so short that the book is perhaps best viewed as a “sampler” of the Civil War. The book is intended to give a flavor and a feel to the Civil War in Georgia, but is inadequate for a deeper understanding of the Civil War.

Most of the significant battles that occurred in Georgia get a chapter; however, disappointingly, very few maps are provided to clarify the maneuvers. Supporting institutions such as hospitals, manufacturing facilities, railroads, newspapers, and prisons primarily located in Georgia’s main cities are recognized. In addition, the situation for unionists, deserters, dissenters, women, and slaves are described.

As this collection makes evident, control of the memories of the Civil War has always been very important to Southerners. Various cities, sites, organizations, activities, books, films, etc have sought to favorably depict the Civil War dating from its conclusion to the present day. In particular, the so-called “lost cause” theme is often advanced. According to this idea, the Confederacy was a gallant cause waged by honorable men to fend off the depredations of unscrupulous Yankees. Slavery, according to them, was a benign part of Southern life that Yankee invaders destroyed. Some of the articles are critical of this idea, but others are accepting.

In many ways the book and the online site are exasperating in their neutrality and passivity to the realities of the South, the Civil War, and slavery. One article in the first section claims that the Civil War was “very much a political war,” that occurred due to political failure. What is not said, is that “fire-eating” Southern social and economic elites drove the political process. America has never figured how to give average citizens a meaningful voice in the political process. An article on Reconstruction scarcely mentions the incredible violence perpetrated on blacks and sympathizers, which continued through several decades of Jim Crow. One author amazingly suggests that blacks and whites hammered out an agreement about freedom after the War.

The book is no more than a very minimalist introduction to the Civil War. Some of the places and organizations that remember the Civil War are not found in traditional histories, so may be useful. To learn about the Civil War and its aftermath such books such as David Potter’s The Impending Crisis, James McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom, and Eric Foner’s Reconstruction must be consulted.

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