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Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia Paperback – December 26, 2002

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"A significant voice in a significant debate . . . full of marvelous quotes."--William W. Freehling, University of Kentucky

"Shows clearly that the Solid South was not solid at all [and] demonstrates that the war encompassed much more than military strategy and tactics . . . it was fought at home as well as on the battlefield."--Wayne K. Durrill, University of Cincinnati

This compelling and engaging book sheds new light on how planter self-interest, government indifference, and the very nature of southern society produced a rising tide of dissent and disaffection among Georgia's plain folk during the Civil War. The authors make extensive use of local newspapers, court records, manuscript collections, and other firsthand accounts to tell a story of latent class resentment that emerged full force under wartime pressures and undermined southern support for the Confederacy.

More directly than any previous historians, the authors make clear the connections between the causes of class resentment and their impact. Planters produced far too much cotton and avoided the draft at will. Speculators hoarded scarce goods and brought on spiraling inflation. Government officials turned a blind eye to the infractions of the rich, and were often bribed to do so. Women left to go hungry took matters into their own hands, stealing livestock in rural areas and rioting for food in every major city in Georgia. The hardships of families back home weighed heavily on soldiers in the field, contributing to rampant desertion. Deserters banded together, sometimes with draft dodgers and blacks escaping enslavement, to defend themselves or to go on the offensive against Confederate authorities. Some whites even planned and participated in slave resistance, a joining of forces that previous historians have long dismissed as highly improbable. So violent did Georgia’s inner civil war become that one resident commented, "We are fighting each other harder than we ever fought the enemy."

This work stresses more forcefully than any before it that plain folk in the Deep South were far from united behind the Confederate war effort. That lack of unity, brought on largely by class resentment, helped to ensure that the Confederacy’s cause would, in the end, be lost.

David Williams is professor and acting chair of the Department of History at Valdosta State University.

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    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University Press of Florida
  4. Publication date
    December 26, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.63 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0813028361
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0813028361
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Press of Florida; First Edition (December 26, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0813028361
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813028361
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.63 x 9 inches
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David Williams is a retired university professor who for more than thirty years taught survey courses in U.S history along with upper division and graduate courses in Old South, Civil War era, and Georgia history. He is seen here with his wife, Teresa Crisp Williams, with whom he co-authored several books, book chapters, and articles. This historical marker, for which they wrote the text, is located at the north end of Broad Street in Columbus, Georgia. It commemorates one of many women's riots that occurred across the South during the Civil War, including all of Georgia's major cities and many of its smaller communities. These and other incidents reflecting social currents that undermined the Confederate war effort are discussed in his book BITTERLY DIVIDED: THE SOUTH'S INNER CIVIL WAR and more recently GEORGIA'S CIVIL WAR: CONFLICT ON THE HOME FRONT.

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Ran and Andy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book-learned a lot about how the war was perceived by average Southerners
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This book was fascinating-how the rich slave owners shaped the laws-owners of 10 or more slaves were in exempt from military service, avoided growing food crops instead of cotton so they didn’t have to send food to soldiers or soldiers families, but crops were commandeered from poor families.

Rich people profited while poor people suffered
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5.0 out of 5 stars Civil War in the Empire State of the South
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Professor Williams offered a detailed account of what the Civil War years were like for Georgians on the home front, offering chapters that deal with the role of women, the plight of enslaved Africans, poor soldiers, and deserters. The monograph was well researched, brilliantly written, and thoroughly entertaining.
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4.0 out of 5 stars union sympathizers in South
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Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History  It shows that it was rich folk and not poor folks who who were most in favor of the war
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