The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War And The Remaking Of The American Middle Border

Authors

Dan Crofts

ISBN

9780195187236

Price

$34.95

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Abstract

Dividing the West The American West once flanked both sides of the Ohio River and the upper Mississippi. Its peoples shared a regional identity and they intermingled freely. Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd, both born in Kentucky, met and married in Illinois. Joshua Speed, a Kentuckian who lived fo....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.19.1.16

Recommended Citation

Crofts, Dan (2017) "The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War And The Remaking Of The American Middle Border," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 19 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.19.1.16
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol19/iss1/11