Ozark Blood: Kin and Kind in the Civil War

Ozark Blood offers a fresh insight into the politics and war psychology of the pivotal event in American history.  It focuses on the Civil War as it engulfed the hill people of Northwest Arkansas.  In no other area were the inner personal conflicts more evident than in this mountain border region.  Here the war was less about sectional differences and more about personal survival.   Men, and women, were forced to enter deadly conflict against their relatives and neighbors -- kin and kind.  Family historians will discover over 400 individual participants from the Arkansas mountains included:  some are only listed on unit and prison rosters, some are part of the central narrative and several tell their own story of life, love and war.  It is more than just a narrative of the many deady battles and incidents involving men and military units from Northwest Arkansas.  It is the story of the character and personal convictions of the Arkansas mountian people.