| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War. By Robert Tracy McKenzie. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 306 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-518294-1.)

Robert Tracy McKenzie's book on Civil War Knoxville adds to the growing body of historical literature about internal divisions in the southern Confederacy. The author found that there was support for the Union in Knoxville when the city was under Federal occupation, but that support was silent when it was under Confederate occupation. A similar trend held true for the pro-Confederates. These conclusions will come as no surprise to experts on those divisions. McKenzie tests and rejects plausible factors to explain wartime loyalties, including place of birth, class and occupation, and slave ownership, but insists that no single factor explains loyalty. Prewar party affiliation appears to have been the best indicator of wartime loyalty (most Knoxville Unionists had been Whigs even up to the war). Family ties and feuds between families, especially over property and local power, influenced wartime behavior and should be researched further. Since this book is not about guerrilla warfare in the countryside or town violence, McKenzie does not pursue those subjects. Thus, other east Tennessee events that influenced town behavior, such as fugitive movement into Knoxville, are ignored.

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