Contents

 

 

 

Preface

Introduction
Larry H. Whiteaker

Part 1: Secession in Kentucky and Tennessee

Beleaguered Loyalties: Kentucky Unionism
Gary R. Matthews

Not a Pariah, but a Keystone: Kentucky and Secession
Thomas C. Mackey

The Vortex of Secession: West Tennesseans and the Rush to War
Derek W. Frisby

“An unconditional, straight-out Union man”: Parson Brownlow
and the Secession Crisis in East Tennessee
Robert Tracy McKenzie

“We can never live in a southern confederacy”:
The Civil War in East Tennessee
John D. Fowler

Part 2: Traitors, Blacks, and Guerrillas in Wartime Kentucky and Tennessee

“Battle against the traitors”: Unionist Middle Tennesseans in the Ninth
Kentucky Infantry and What They Fought For
Kenneth W. Noe

“Time by the forelock”: Champ Ferguson and the
Borderland Style of Warfare
Brian D. McKnight

“I shoot the men and burn their houses”:
Home Fires in the Line of Fire
Michael R. Bradley

Freedom Is Better Than Slavery: Black Families and
Soldiers in Civil War Kentucky
Marion B. Lucas

A Long Way from Freedom: Camp Nelson Refugees
Richard D. Sears

“Not much a friend to traiters no matter how beautiful”: The Union
Military and Confederate Women in Civil War Kentucky
Kristen L. Streater

Part 3: War’s Impact in Kentucky and Tennessee

“My trust is still firmly fixed in God”: Alfred T. Fielder,
His Christian Faith, and the Ordeal of War
Kent T. Dollar

An Interrupted Life: Colonel Sidney Smith Stanton
W. Calvin Dickinson

The Failure of Restoration: Wartime Reconstruction in
Tennessee, 1862–1865
Jonathan M. Atkins

Reconstruction Power Play: The 1867 Mayoral Election in
Nashville, Tennessee
Ben H. Severance

After the Horror: Kentucky in Reconstruction
B. Franklin Cooling

Afterword
John V. Cimprich

Contributors

Index