Appalachia and the Civil War

1. Appalachian Politics--A Tangle
   1. State-to-State Differences
   2. Intrastate Differences
   3. Local Differences
   4. Class Differences
2. Appalachia and the Secession Crisis
   1. The Slavery Issue--Solidarity With White Southern "Brethren"
   2. Initial Response to Secession--A Conditional Unionism
   3. After Fort Sumter
      1. Surge in Confederate Sympathy, BUT
      2. Major Exceptions
         1. East Tennessee
            1. Hostility to "Slaveocracy" of Middle and West
            2. The Pro-Confederate Minority--Commercial Ambitions
         2. West Virginia (Statehood, 1863)
            1. Ohio Valley Separatism
            2. Confederate Sympathies
         3. Variation at the Grass Roots
         4. Localism--The Common Strand?
   4. The War in Appalachia
      1. Strategic Significance
         1. As "Breadbasket" of Confederacy
         2. As Invasion Route
         3. As Railway Lifeline of Confederacy
         4. As Unionist Obsession
      2. The Course of Events
         1. Confederate Occupation of East Tennessee
         2. Stonewall Jackson and the 1862 Shenandoah Campaign
         3. Lee's Invasions of the North--Sharpsburg [Antietam](1862), Gettysburg (1863)
         4. Chattanooga and the "Liberation" of East Tennessee
         5. The Guerrilla War
         6. Philip Sheridan and the 1864 Shenandoah Campaign
   5. Aftermath--A Devastating Experience