Broken Hearts Broken Lives - Jefferson County TN Civilian Life in the Civil War

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Broken Hearts / Broken Lives
Jefferson County, Tennessee
Civilian Life in the Civil War, 1860-1868
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Written by several authors
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Jefferson Printing Company, 1986
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Softcover : Very Good to Near Mint - seems unread.
Signed on the table of contents by the author of Chapter 2
148 pages, heavily illustrated with portraits,
maps, photos and sketches. Indexed.
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From Wikipedia
Jefferson County was established on June 11, 1792, by William Blount, Governor of the Southwest Territory. It had been a part of Caswell County during the State of Franklin period (1784–1789). Its county seat, Dandridge, was settled in 1783.
On the eve of the Civil War, Jefferson County, like most other counties in mountainous East Tennessee, was opposed to secession. In Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession referendum on June 8, 1861, Jefferson County voters rejected secession by a margin of 1,987 to 603. A railroad bridge at Strawberry Plains was among those targeted by the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy in November 1861. This led to internal conflict in the area throughout the war, with men from the county enlisting in both of the rival armies.
This book has some military history of the area of Jefferson County in it,
but it mostly focuses on the civilians and what they endured thru the years of the Civil War.
It also has a chapter about
"The Death of Slavery and a New Beginning for Blacks"
of Jefferson County.
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