The Politics of Southern Draft Resistance, 1917-1918: Class, Race, and Conscription in the Rural South. Keith, J. The Journal of American History, 87(4):1335–1361, March, 2001. Publisher: [Oxford University Press, Organization of American Historians]![The Politics of Southern Draft Resistance, 1917-1918: Class, Race, and Conscription in the Rural South [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex In the darkness of an early summer morning in 1918, a truck loaded with fifty soldiers lumbered up into the hills north of Atlanta, Georgia, part of a federal-state expedition into rural Cherokee County, a reported center of resistance to the World War I draft. After interrogating suspected deserters' families and intimidating a local anti-draft activist, troops and law enforcement agents loaded up again and drove even deeper into the hills, in search of another deserter's home. At this point, what had been a successful raid took an unexpected turn. To reach the next target, the convoy had to pass over a wooden bridge spanning the Etowah River. The heavy truck carrying the soldiers crashed through the bridge and fell into the river below, killing three soldiers and seriously injuring eight. At the scene of the crash, an agent from the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation noted that farmers seemed to appear from nowhere to rescue the injured men. Suspicious, he investigated the timbers supporting the bridge and found that they had been sawed almost through. When he asked an elderly man at the scene about the bridge's condition, he was told that the timbers had been damaged during the Civil War. The agent discounted this possibility and recorded his suspicion of sabotag.
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abstract = {In the darkness of an early summer morning in 1918, a truck loaded with fifty soldiers lumbered up into the hills north of Atlanta, Georgia, part of a federal-state expedition into rural Cherokee County, a reported center of resistance to the World War I draft. After interrogating suspected deserters' families and intimidating a local anti-draft activist, troops and law enforcement agents loaded up again and drove even deeper into the hills, in search of another deserter's home. At this point, what had been a successful raid took an unexpected turn. To reach the next target, the convoy had to pass over a wooden bridge spanning the Etowah River. The heavy truck carrying the soldiers crashed through the bridge and fell into the river below, killing three soldiers and seriously injuring eight. At the scene of the crash, an agent from the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation noted that farmers seemed to appear from nowhere to rescue the injured men. Suspicious, he investigated the timbers supporting the bridge and found that they had been sawed almost through. When he asked an elderly man at the scene about the bridge's condition, he was told that the timbers had been damaged during the Civil War. The agent discounted this possibility and recorded his suspicion of sabotag.},
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