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Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South

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by John C. Inscoe


  Boorman, John, 369

  Bower, George, 80–81

  Bread riot, in Jonesville, N.C., 208

  Breckinridge, John, 106

  Bristol, Tenn., 17, 30, 105

  Brown, John, 20–21, 245–46

  Brown, Joseph E., 30, 276

  Brown, Mary Taylor, 216–17

  Brown, W. Vance, 216–17

  Brown, William Vance, 82

  Browne, Junius, 176, 186, 192–93, 327

  Brownlow, William G., 28, 107, 109–11, 115

  Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, 32

  Bryson City, N.C., 270

  Buffalo Forge, Va., 51–52

  Bull Run, battle of, 183

  Buncombe County, N.C., 86, 220

  Burke County, N.C., 49–50, 56, 105, 215

  Burkes Garden, Va., 134

  Burns, Ken, 282

  Burnsville, N.C., 67, 71

  Burson, William, 186–87

  Bushwhackers, 127, 131, 166–67, 180–81, 214, 271, 273, 308, 312, 326–27, 334–38, 341

  Cabbell, Edward J., 17, 363n11

  Cabins in the Laurel (Shepherd), 317

  Cades Cove, Tenn., 134, 190

  Cain, Sarah Bailey, 218, 219

  Caldwell County, N.C., 87, 88–90, 94, 124–25, 180

  Calley, William, 291–92

  Campbell, John C., 18, 70, 236, 256, 269–76

  Campbell, Olive Dame, 272, 365–66

  Camp Sorghum, S.C., 127, 177, 193

  Carnesville, Ga., 184

  Carolina Mountains, The (Morley), 265–68

  Carroll, Edith, 129–31, 134

  Carson, Logan, 210–11

  Carter County, Tenn., 325

  Cash, W. J., 17–18, 71, 238

  Cashiers, N.C., 190

  Caudill, Harry, 21, 247

  Chapman, Verena, 213, 219

  Chappell, Louis, 356–57, 362n6

  Charleston, S.C., 83, 86–87, 92, 112, 163, 304–5, 310

  Charlotte, N.C., 209–10

  Chattanooga, Tenn., 17, 30–31, 67, 74, 105, 184, 265–67, 276

  Chattooga River, 376

  Cherokee County, N.C., 144, 167, 318

  Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, 351, 357–58

  Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 84

  Chickamauga, battle of, 274

  Civil War Trails project, 293, 301n21

  Clark, Walter, 306

  Clay County, Ky., 48–49

  Clingman, Thomas L., 106, 112, 118–19

  Cobb, Irwin S., 233

  Cold Mountain, 135, 298–99, 303–19, 328, 365, 370–75

  Cold Mountain, N.C., 304, 309

  Coleman, David, 151–54, 171n23

  Colonization, African, 73

  Columbia, S.C., 177, 179, 209

  Confederacy, 206

  support of in Appalachia, 89, 111–12, 219–20, 264, 274–75, 312–13

  Confederate currency, 89–91, 95

  Confederates in the Attic (Horwitz), 282

  Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 272

  Confessions of Nat Turner, The (Styron), 19

  Conscription, 150, 170n19, 331–32, 334

  Cooper, Alonzo, 176, 187–88

  Cooper, Gary, 376

  Corpening, Joseph, 87

  Cotton, 89, 104

  Cowles, Calvin J., 80, 85–86, 87–88

  Cowles, Mary, 94–95

  Cranberry, N.C., 138–39

  Crane, Susan A., 342–43

  Crawford, Martin, 134, 334, 341–42

  Cripps, Thomas, 242

  Crockett, Davy, 242

  Cumberland Mountains, 14, 21, 23, 104

  Cunningham, Rodger, 27

  Dahlonega, Ga., 324

  Danville, Va., 177, 185

  Davidson, Allen, 86

  Davidson, Samuel, 245

  Davis, Jefferson, 83, 148–49, 165

  Davis-DeEulis, Marilyn, 54

  de Tocqueville, Alexis, 27

  Deaderick, David, 20

  Degler, Carl, 26

  Deliverance, 303, 352, 365–73

  Democratic Party, 105–6, 116

  Denver, John, 370

  Desertion, 136, 148, 154, 178, 181–82, 186, 214, 280n34, 288, 309, 312–13, 316–17

  D’lea (slave), 47, 54

  Dollmaker, The, 365, 371, 373

  Douglass, Frederick, 20, 60–61

  Drake, Madison, 124–25, 136, 176, 180, 191–92

  “Dueling Banjos,” 376

  Dugger, G. W., 138–39

  Dugger, Shepherd, 139

  Dunaway, Wilma, 245

  Dunn, Durwood, 134, 245

  Dykeman, Wilma, 317

  Earp, Marlene, 294

  East Tennessee, 14–15, 16, 22–23, 25, 27–28, 58, 72, 260

  economy of, 104–5, 114, 116–17

  escaped prisoners in, 179–96

  racial violence in, 228–30

  secession from Tennessee, 117, 263

  stories set in, 228–30, 233–34

  Union troops from, 103, 209

  East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, 105

  Eaton, John, 18, 34

  Egan, Michael, 129, 136, 187

  Eggers, Landrine, 336–37

  Ehle, John, 242–50, 364

  Elizabethton, Tenn., 67, 72

  Ellis, Daniel, 192, 283, 306, 325–26

  Ellis, John, 147, 150

  Emancipation, 34. See also Slavery, end of

  Emancipation Proclamation, 28

  Enlistment, Confederate, 147–48, 267, 268, 308, 330

  Equiano, Olaudah, 60–61

  Erwin, Marcus, 82, 106

  Families, divided loyalties of, 125–39, 267, 337–40

  Faulkner, William, 14–15, 18, 227–38

  Faust, Drew Gilpin, 165, 193

  Fayetteville, N.C., 218

  Featherstonaugh, George, 30, 146

  Federal Writers Project, 50–51

  Fee, John, 23

  Fellman, Michael, 125, 136, 190, 314

  Ferguson, Champ, 325–26

  Feuding, 265–66, 271

  Fields, Barbara, 20, 34–35

  Film

  Appalachian women on, 250, 312–16

  Appalachia on, 242–50, 253, 303, 312–16, 364–78

  blacks in, 242, 313, 374

  Flat Rock, N.C., 83, 97n3, 112–13, 127–28, 193, 268

  Fletcher, Arthur, 340–41

  Fonda, Jane, 365, 371

  Fort Defiance, N.C., 88

  Fort Sumter, attack on, 107, 126, 313

  Foster, Stephen William, 341

  Fox, John, 14–15, 22, 262–63, 275

  Foxfire, 365, 369–71

  Franklin, John Hope, 60–61

  Franklin, N.C., 91, 146–47, 150, 166–67, 208, 333

  Franklin, State of, 117

  Frazier, Charles, 135, 298–99, 303–6, 313, 328

  Fredericksburg, Va., 183

  Free blacks, 17, 46–47, 52, 56, 59–60, 72–73, 189, 197

  Freedman’s Bureau, 18, 236

  Free Masonry, 212

  Free Soil movement, 20

  French Broad River, 112, 185, 206

  Frost, William G., 202n55, 256, 259, 275

  Fugitive prisoner narratives, 176–98, 305

  Fugitive prisoners of war, 140n7, 327

  Gale, Katherine Polk, 206–7, 217–18, 220

  Garnett, Robert S., 262–63, 279n20

  Garth, Ella, 370–71

  Gastonia, N.C., 234–35

  Gatlinburg, Tenn., 296

  Genovese, Eugene, 65

  Georgia, 16, 19, 24, 86, 112, 126, 309

  racial violence in, 31–32

  See also North Georgia

  Gettysburg, battle of, 264

  Ghormley, Nancy, 132–33, 138

  Gillem, Alvan C., 210–17

  Gilmore, James R., 1–2, 6–7, 188

  Glatthaar, Joseph, 195

  Gold rush

  California, 49–50, 56

  western North Carolina, 49

  Gone With the Wind, 311, 312, 315

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nbsp; Goodheart, Adam, 298–99

  Goodrich, William, 21

  Graham, William A., 205

  Grandfather Mountain, N.C., 307–8, 317, 328

  Grant, Ulysses S., 209, 274

  Grapes of Wrath, The, 372, 374

  Great Hanging (Cooke Co., Tex.), 296

  Great Smoky Mountains, 104, 127–28, 132–33, 146, 179, 207, 267, 270

  Great Wagon Road, Va., 46

  Greeneville, Tenn., 52–53, 55, 110, 132

  Greenville, S.C., 184

  Greenwald, Maggie, 374

  Greer, Jesse, 331, 336, 340

  Greer family, 332

  Gregg, Bill, 285, 291

  Griffin, Larry, 4–5

  Gudger, Sarah, 31, 50–51, 55

  Guerrilla warfare, 5, 125–37, 180–81, 265, 271, 273, 276, 280n34, 288

  on film, 312–16, 370

  memories of, 282–98, 322–44

  women and, 125–37, 207, 213, 273, 314–19

  Gurney, Joseph John, 31, 33

  Gwyn, James, 89–90, 135

  Hadley, J. V., 193, 306

  Halbwachs, Maurice, 342–43

  Hall, Van Beck, 33

  Hannibal (slave), 48, 57–58

  Happy Valley, N.C., 307

  Harper, Ella, 207, 215

  Harpers Ferry, Va., 20–21, 245–46

  Harris, George Washington, 233–34

  Harris, Isham, 110

  Hatfield-McCoy feud, 29, 134

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 194–95

  Haywood County, N.C., 86, 88–90, 233, 295, 306–8, 328, 341

  Hemp, 47

  Hemphill, William, 50–51, 55

  Henderson, N.C., 190

  Henderson County, N.C., 28, 113, 193

  Hendersonville, N.C., 83, 95, 112–13, 214, 216

  Hennion, Horatio, 326

  Hennion, Margaret, 326

  Henry, John, 350–63

  Heroes of America, 307

  Hesseltine, William, 176, 196

  Heth, Henry, 283, 288

  Highlander Folk School, 23–24

  Highlands, N.C., 268, 352–53

  Hillbillyland (Williamson), 242, 315, 371

  Hills Beyond, The (Wolfe), 16

  Hinton, W.Va., 351

  Holden, William W., 80

  Hollinger family, 127–28, 134, 137

  Holmes, William F., 32

  “Holy Appalachia,” 21, 197, 247, 377

  Home Guard, 162–63, 181, 186–87, 304, 306–7, 312–18, 327, 334, 341

  Horwitz, Tony, 282–83

  Hot Springs, N.C., 261

  Howe, Irving, 228

  Hsiung, David, 245

  Humes, Thomas, 25, 27–28

  Inman, W. P., 135–36, 304–10, 368–69, 375

  Internal improvements, 104–5, 118

  Invention of Appalachia, The (Batteau), 360–61, 377

  Iraq, war in, 291–92

  Ironworks, 57, 138–39

  Jackson, Stonewall, 264

  Jacobs, Harriet, 60–61

  Joad, Ma, 372–74

  John Henry Days (Whitehead), 350–63

  Johnson, Andrew, 28, 55, 107, 110, 114, 132, 276

  as slaveholder, 29, 52–53, 114

  Johnson, Charles, 53

  Johnson, Guy B., 355–57, 362n6

  Johnson County, Tenn., 330

  Johnston, Joseph E., 209

  Johnstone, Andrew, 97n3

  Jones, Alexander H., 28, 95

  Jones, James Earl, 374

  Jones, Loyal, 19, 70

  Jonesboro, Tenn., 30, 117

  Jonesville, N.C., 208

  Joppa, Ala., 274

  Journal of Negro History, 23

  Journey of August King, The, 242–53, 364, 368–70, 373

  Kazan, Elia, 365

  Keith, James, 283, 286–90, 300n12, 301n17

  Kellogg, John Azor, 182, 184, 188, 327

  Kentucky, 14–15, 23, 47, 263, 264

  divided loyalties of, 260

  racial violence in, 32

  Kephart, Horace, 236, 256, 269–72, 306

  Kidman, Nicole, 312, 315, 371

  King, August, 243–52, 369–70, 373, 375

  King’s Mountain, battle of, 261–62, 264, 268, 279n15

  Kinston, N.C., 88

  Kinston, Tenn., 111

  Kirk, George, 288

  Kirk, John, 288

  Kirke, Edmund, 189

  Kirk’s Raid, 96–97n3

  Klotter, James, 3, 16, 197, 257

  Knox County, Tenn., 105

  Knoxville, Tenn., 17, 22, 30–31, 105, 109–10, 116, 128, 132, 283

  destination for fugitive prisoners, 179, 184

  Kousser, J. Morgan, 34

  Ku Klux Klan, 32

  Lancaster, Pa., 46

  Lanman, Charles, 33, 147

  Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina, The (Spencer), 204

  Law, Jude, 314

  Lee, Robert E., 94, 209, 274, 306, 319

  Lenoir, Lizzie, 208

  Lenoir, N.C., 86, 207–8, 213–14

  Lenoir, Rufus, 88–90, 94

  Lenoir, Thomas, 88

  Lenoir, Walter, 88–90, 94

  Lenoir family, 88–91, 94

  Lexington, Va., 51

  Libby Prison, 189

  Liberia, 22, 72

  Lincoln, Abraham, 111, 150, 257

  call for troops, 107, 263, 313

  election of, 28, 29, 103, 106

  inauguration of, 329

  Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, The (Fox), 14–15, 22, 262

  Little Tennessee River, 146–47

  Livestock, 68, 104

  London, Ky., 30

  “Lost Cause,” 29

  Lost Cause, 256–57, 295–96, 323–24, 326

  Love, Dillard, 91, 93, 147

  Loyalties, divided, 324–25

  in Appalachia, 124–39, 256–77

  Lumpkin, Grace, 233

  Lundy, Benjamin, 22, 30

  Lynchburg, Va., 67

  Lynchings, 32, 249, 297

  Mabry, Jeannette, 128–29, 137

  Mace, Borden, 243, 253

  Macon County, N.C., 90–91, 144, 147, 208, 307, 318

  Madison County, N.C., 133, 261, 276, 283–95

  Manley, Charles, 107–8

  Mann, Ralph, 134, 328

  Manumission, slave, 33, 49, 55–56, 115

  Marshall, N.C., 283

  raid on, 287–289

  Mars Hill College, 282, 284–85, 292–93

  Martin, Brenden, 296

  Martin, James G., 210, 217

  Maryville, Tenn., 251

  Maryville College, 16, 263

  Mason-Dixon line, 36, 262

  Massey, Mary Elizabeth, 164

  Masur, Louis, 175

  Matewan, 365, 372–75

  Mattocks, Charles, 179, 185

  McCaslin, Richard, 296

  McCrumb, Sharon, 284

  McDowell, Tom, 148–49

  McDowell County, N.C., 207, 210–11

  McElrath, Robert, 49–50, 56

  McKenzie, Tracy, 134

  McKinney, Gordon B., 33–34, 166, 284

  McNeil, W. K., 259

  Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, 262, 264, 279n18

  Memminger, Christopher, 84, 113, 128

  Memory, 7–8, 355, 361

  and guerrilla warfare, 294–98, 325–44

  historical, 294–98, 342–44

  Mexican War, 76

  Miles, Emma Bell, 256, 265–69, 274

  Mind of the South, The (Cash), 17–18, 71, 238

  Minghella, Anthony, 312, 313, 319

  Mississippi, 227, 228–30, 233, 263, 357

  Missouri, 190, 314

  Mitchell, Elisha, 112, 285

  Mitchell, Robert D., 245

  Mitchell County, N.C., 19, 71

  Monroe, Ada, 304–11, 369, 374

  Mooney, James, 306

  Moonshiners, 32, 265–66, 270

  Moravians, 46

  Morgan, John Hunt, 137, 325–26

  murde
r of, 132

  Morgan, Rick, 285

  Morganton, N.C., 104, 210, 214–15, 244

  Morley, Margaret, 265–69, 276

  Morris, B. T., 284

  Mountain Born (Gowen), 233–34

  “Mountain Victory” (Faulkner), 227–30, 237–38

  Murphy, N.C., 67

  Music, Appalachian, 259, 374–75

  My Lai massacre, 291–92

  Nashville, Tenn., 110, 116–17

  Natchez, Miss., 30, 69

  Nations, Annie, 370, 375

  Nelson, Scott R., 362n6, 363n11

  Nelson, Thomas A. R., 107, 109–10, 116

  Nevels, Gertie, 368–369, 371–73, 375

  New Orleans, La., 84

  Newport, Tenn., 47–48

  New River Valley, 30

  Newton, Thandie, 243–44, 252, 370

  New York City, 50, 75–76

  Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 47

  Noe, Kenneth, 194, 257

  Nolichucky River, 192

  Nonslaveholders, 184, 271

  in Appalachia, 67–77, 112–13, 227–32, 247–49, 271

  North Carolina, 204

  secession of, 313

  Sherman’s troops in, 209

  See also Western North Carolina

  North Carolina regiments. See Regiments, North Carolina

  North Fork, N.C., 131, 322–44

  North Georgia, 15, 23–24, 29, 30, 67, 235, 341

  Lost Cause in, 324

  racial violence in, 31–32

  tourism in, 370–71

  Unionism in, 180–82

  Northwest Territory, 27

  Norwood, Joseph, 214

  Norwood, Laura, 212

  Oberlin College, 259

  O’Brien, Sean, 284

  O’Connor, Flannery, 16

  Odyssey, The (Homer), 305

  O’Hara, Scarlett, 319

  Ohio Valley, 54

  Old Fort, N.C., 31, 243

  O’Leary, Sean, 285–89, 297, 299, 301n20

  Olmsted, Frederick Law, 7, 25–26, 33, 65–77, 81–82, 251

  Olson, Eric, 31, 34

  Osburn, Tom, 334–35

  Our Southern Highlanders (Kephart), 236, 269–72

  Page, Geraldine, 372

  Palmer, William, 210, 212

  Paludan, Philip, 284, 288, 307

  Parish, Peter, 59

  Parkins, W. H., 176, 192

  Patric, Jason, 243–44, 252

  Patriotic Gore (Wilson), 175

  Patsy (slave), 92–93

  Patterson, Rufus, 95

  Pearson, Robert C., 215

  Petersburg, siege of, 304

  Philanthropists, northern, 274

  Phillips, U. B., 13, 65

  Piedmont College, 272

  Pierson, Mrs. D. L., 261–62, 276

  Pigeon Forge, Tenn., 296

  Pikeville, Ky., 30

  Pinter, Harold, 295, 324

  Polk, Leonidas, 84

  Polk County, Tenn., 67

  Poor whites. See Nonslaveholders

  Potter, Andy, 330–32, 339

  Potter, Jack, 332, 334

  Potter family, 330–34, 339, 348n27

  Presbyterian Home Mission Board, 263

  Presbyterians, “New Light,” 22, 251

  Prisoners of war, 206, 211, 288

  Prisoners of war, fugitive, 7, 28, 124–25, 140n7, 176–98, 218, 305, 313

 

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