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Rich man's war : class, caste, and Confederate defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

"Focuses on the Civil War experience of people in the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat"--Jacket

eBook, English, 1998
University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., 1998