Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Antebellum Germantown
1. The White Folks and Their Lives
2. Hierarchy and Harmony?
3. A Transportation and Economic Center
4. Growing Political Tensions
Part Summary
Part 2: The War Years
5. 1861: Germantown Goes to War
6. 1862: The War Comes to Germantown
7. 1863: Germantown Occupied
8. 1864: Germantown Returns to Anarchy
9. 1865: Winding Down the War
Part Summary
Part 3: The Aftermath
10. Reconstruction
11. Social and Economic Recovery
12. The Troubled Rebirth of a Community
Conclusion
Postscript
Appendix 1 Defining Germantown and Its People
Appendix 2 Identifying Men Who Served in the War
Appendix 3 Assessing Population, Wealth, and Property
Notes
Bibliography
Names Index
Subject Index