War of Another Kind A Southern Community in the Great Rebellion

by Durrill, Wayne K.

• ISBN13: 9780195089233
• ISBN10: 0195089235
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this book Durrill describes in graphic detail the disintegration, during the Civil War, of Southern plantation society in a North Carolina coastal county. He details struggles among planters, slaves, yeoman farmers, and landless white laborers, as well as a guerrilla war and a clash between two armies that, in the end, destroyed all that remained of the county's social structure. He examines the failure of a planter-yeoman alliance, and discusses how yeoman farmers and landless white laborers allied themselves against planters, but to no avail. He also shows how slaves, when refugeed upcountry, tried unsuccessfully to reestablish their prerogatives--a subsistence, as well as protection from violence--owed them as a minimal condition of their servitude.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Beginnings of a Plantation Community	3	(16)
1. Secession	19	(21)
2. The Yeoman Challenge	40	(28)
3. Removal: The First Crisis in Paternalism	68	(23)
4. A Question of Sovereignty	91	(28)
5. The Emancipation Proclamation: Beginnings of a Property War	119	(26)
6. Refugeeing: The Second Crisis in Paternalism	145	(21)
7. Guerrilla War	166	(20)
8. The Battle of Plymouth	186	(25)
Epilogue: The End of a Plantation Community	211	(18)
Statistical Appendix	229	(14)
Notes	243	(34)
Bibliographic Note	277	(4)
Index	281