| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia. By Mark V. Wetherington. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 383 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2963-3.)

Over the last two decades, studies of the Old South's geographic edges have added immeasurably to what scholars know about the coming of the American Civil War and the character of the ensuing conflict. Mark V. Wetherington's ongoing examination of the longleaf pine belt of Georgia—usually called the "Wiregrass" or the "Piney Woods"—likewise views events from a fringe of the cotton South and presents conclusions that challenge scholars. Wetherington is the author of a justly well-received book on the postwar industrial transformation of the Wiregrass (The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860–1910, 1994), and his present work is a solid contribution to the burgeoning field of Civil War home front studies.

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