Aaron Astor, is Associate Professor of History at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee. He is the author of Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation and the Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri, 1860-1872 and The Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau. He contributed several articles to the New York Times Disunion series, and is currently working on a book on the 1860 election at the grassroots from the perspective of four distinct American communities in Vermont, Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi.