War Is Hell, So Have a Chew: The Persistence of Agroenvironmental Ideas in the Civil War Piedmont (2015)
Alanson Haines of the 15th Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers found himself a Union occupier in the southern Piedmont in the late spring of 1865. Haines’s unit was part of the Federal force that garrisoned the market center of Danville, Virginia, after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; he and his fellow soldiers camped a few miles south of the city in northern Caswell County, North Carolina. Haines was glad to see the end of fighting, but he was less enthused about his environs, revealing particular disgust with the agricultural practices of the rural Piedmont. He described the region’s farmland...
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