Civil War historians have long noted that support for Confederacy in the antebellum South tended to align with geography: those who lived in towns, along railroads, and on land suited for large-scale farming tended to side with the Confederacy, while those who lived a more isolated existence and made their livings by subsitence farming and bartering usually remained Unionist. Bartow Country in northwest Georgia, is an ideal microcosm to examine these issues. Keith S. Hébert examines the rise and fall of Confederate nationalism in Bartow County, a shared experience among many counties in the upland South. Hébert's story tells us much about the war's origins, Confederate defeat, and the enduring legacy of white supremacy in these rural areas. Although no major battles were fought in Bartow County, Sherman's Atlanta Campaign saw Federal troops occupying the area. As the home front collapsed, Confederate soldiers had to decide if they should remain in the army and fight or return home to protect their families and property. Drawing on the primary source record of newspapers, letters, diaries, and official documents from the county, Hébert compellingly works personalized vignettes into a scholarly study of developments from the advent of war through Reconstruction and the decades following. The Long Civil War in the North Georgia Mountains solidities recent scholarship about the war in southern Appalachia and opens a window into a community deeply divided by civil war.