Description: The resulting study reveals the lingering effect of the war's memory and how the effort to construct a new regional dynamic continues to shape popular conceptions of the period.
Review Quotes:
War upon Our Border addresses an important and understudied place, period, and set of sociopolitical shifts while engaging thoughtfully and originally with an emerging scholarly literature on the Civil War borderlands. It offers fresh insights on social conflicts and wartime transformations in the Ohio Valley. By juxtaposing the changes the Civil War wrought on Kentucky communities with similar but not identical changes in southern Indiana, the book reveals subtle insights about race relations, economic structures, responses to military and guerrilla incursions, meanings of loyalty, and the roles of historical memory.
--T. Lloyd Benson, Furman University, author of The Caning of Senator Sumner