| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War. By John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xii, 368 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2544-1.)

North Carolina during and after the Civil War acquired a reputation for strong Unionism. It was the last state to join the Confederacy, the arena for substantial political protest against the new regime, and the target of sometimes horrendous attacks on Unionists. Among the regions in the Confederacy, none gained a greater reputation for dissent against it than the mountain counties. 1

The authors of this work argue persuasively that Unionism in western North Carolina never became as strong as the persistent stereotype would indicate. In fact, it was not even as pervasive as that in the neighboring regions of eastern Tennessee or central North Carolina. Instead, it was "surreptitious and fluctuating." Like Union sentiment in most of the upper South, support for the Union in the mountains of North Carolina faded after secession, then it resurfaced in response to Confederate defeats, increasingly intrusive efforts to sustain the South by conscription and taxation, and raiders and deserters from all sides. . . .

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