Name/Title
All Quiet on the Border: The Civil War Era in Greene County, PennsylvaniaEntry/Object ID
2018.1.6Description
This work is a revised edition of the author's study of Greene County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War. Located on the extreme southwestern corner of the state, Greene County was bordered on two sides, the western boundary and the southern boundary, by the Commonwealth of Virginia. As they were in western Virginia, loyalties in the Pennsylvania county were divided. Laying just north of the Mason-Dixon Line, Greene County citizens had friends and relatives in the slave states of Virginia and Maryland. The people of the area, accordingly, presented, in miniature, "a house divided." A small percentage of the population were true Southern supporters and Copperheads. About a third of the county voted Republican and whole-heartedly back Abraham Lincoln's war policies. The remainder of the residents were Democrats, divided into a large majority of "peace" Democrats seeking a compromise with the South to restore the Union, and a small minority designated themselves as "Union" or "war" Democrats who supported a military solution, although they did not necessarily back all of Lincoln's policies. As the war continued, resistance to military conscription and opposition to the Emancipation Proclamation would result in acts of open resistance to Federal authority, political violence, and even murder, which resulted in the stationing of U.S. Provost Marshal troops in the county to enforce military conscription, arrest deserters and disaffected individuals, and provide protection for loyal voters at various township polls during the 1864 elections. Relying on a variety of primary and secondary sources, the author sketches a picture of a Northern community in civil conflict.Collection
Candice Lynn Buchanan CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
Politics, Military, Veterans--Civil WarBook Details
Author
Fonner, David KentEdition
SecondDate Published
2022ISBN
979-8844033339LCCN
2022482434Relationships
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Person or Organization
Lazear, Jesse (Hon.) [1804-1877]