Civil War America : Voices from the Home Front
Civil War America -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "A People's War" -- Part I Southern Civilians under Siege -- 1 The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin -- 2 Times to Try a Woman's Soul -- 3 A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees -- 4 "A Species of Passio...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.] : ABC-CLIO,
c2003
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Schlagworte: | United States ; History ; Civil War, 1861-1865 ; Personal narratives United States ; History ; Civil War, 1861-1865 ; Social aspects Electronic books Sezessionskrieg |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Civil War America -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "A People's War" -- Part I Southern Civilians under Siege -- 1 The Last Fire-Eater: Edmund Ruffin -- 2 Times to Try a Woman's Soul -- 3 A Miserable, Frightened Life: Southern Refugees -- 4 "A Species of Passionate Insanity": Women of Vicksburg -- 5 Culture Clash: Invaders and Rebels in the Occupied South -- 6 A Lukewarm People: Home Front Dissenters in the Confederacy -- 7 "I Ain't Ashamed of Nuthin": Bill Arp Explains the Confederate Home Front -- Part II Northern Society at War -- 8 George Templeton Strong and the Serious Job of Journalizing -- 9 Reporting the War: Civil War Journalism in the North -- 10 Literary Nurses: Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman -- 11 Thinking Big: Love and Advice from Civil War Fathers -- 12 A Record of Munificence: Supporting the Troops -- 13 "The Bloody Week": The New York City Draft Riots -- Part III The Children's Civil War -- 14 Rabid Partisans among Their Playmates -- 15 What a Difference a War Makes: A Northern Boy and a Southern Girl -- 16 Playing Soldier: Phip Flaxen and the Watermelon War -- 17 Oliver Optic's Civil War: Northern Children and the Literary War for the Union -- Part IV African Americans and the War -- 18 Havens and Hellholes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Contraband Camps -- 19 Testing the Boundaries: Slave Lives in the Confederacy -- 20 Free to Learn: Educating Freedpeople -- Part V Aftermaths -- 21 "That Such a Thing Could Ever Happen": The Death of a President -- 22 Out at the Soldiers' Home: Union Veterans -- 23 Children of the Battlefield: Soldiers' Orphans -- 24 Up from Slavery: African Americans after the War -- 25 "True Soldiers of the Southern Cross": Confederate Women and the Lost Cause -- 26 The Devil's Civil War: The Stories of Ambrose Bierce -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index. The American Civil War was truly a "people's war", where neighbour fought neighbour and brother fought brother. This is a revealing compilation of essays documenting the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath on Americans - young and old, black and white, northern and southern. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical essay (p. 329-334) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781851095025 1851095020 1576072371 9781576072370 |