Abstract
Historians, professional and otherwise, have written thousands of regimental histories, county histories, and town histories of the Civil War years. These studies make the coming of the war concrete and compelling. Inspired by such accounts, it seemed to me that two local portrayals could be even better than one, that exploring communities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line as they each confronted the events from the late fifties to the late sixties might make both sides more comprehensible.
Document Type
Book Chapter
ISBN
9780873389129
Publication Date
2008
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2008 Kent State University Press. This book chapter first appeared in More Than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era.
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Recommended Citation
Ayers, Edward L. ""Momentous Events in Small Places": The Coming of the Civil War in Two American Communities." In More than a Contest Between Armies: Essays on the Civil War Era, edited by James Alan Marten and A. Kristen Foster, 1-17. Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2008.