Title: Buskwhacked Again.
Product review: Fisher does a good job of recounting the violence that inhabited east Tennessee during the Civil War. Partisans from Tennessee and North Carolina spent a great deal of time going across state lines to attack one another in an effort to bring about their ends. These ends did not always include winning the war, but gaining food and oppressing one's enemies. Where the book suffers is in its effort to shed some light upon the politics of the region that worked to shape the manner in which the combatants approached their hate of one another. It does not shed a great deal of information upon the leaders of these groups either, which means we are left to wonder whether these partisans within this region were a mob which was lead, or were recruited by very smart, and maybe, opportunistic leaders. Other than that, this is a good, but not great book on a long overlooked aspect of the war.
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