| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia. By David Williams, Teresa Crisp Williams, and David Carlson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xii, 263 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2570-2.)

The authors in this book state they want to analyze how the Georgia plain folk, "spawned by class resentment, were a major cause of Confederate defeat" (p. 194). They say that, though many issues such as kinship loyalties, self-interest, and old personal grudges divided the Southern people, class conflict was at the heart of unrest and even of disloyalty to the cause. The authors only cursorily discuss how actual warfare and its resultant local lawlessness, brought on by uncontrolled military aggression and a nonfunctioning central government, allowed those internal hostilities to fester.

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