 is honor within the ranks of the armies of the Confederacy in the 1860s. But they're looking back to the early migrations in the colonial period to try to make sense of how people behaved in the 1860s. Appalachia, which absorbed the majority of Scottish and Scots-Irish settlers in the colonial and revolutionary periods, and which remained economically isolated before the Civil War, was at the heart of MacDonald and MacGwinnie's study.