| A "critical year" (April 1860-April 1861) : a study of Unionist sentiment in Western North Carolina during the culminating year of the secession movement |
1975 |
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In 1860, much of the western part of North Carolina was on the verge of economic "takeoff." That is not to say this region was, by any stretch of the imagination, an industrial society in the same light as the manufacturing centers of the North. It w... |