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Southern families at war : loyalty and conflict in the Civil War South
Title:
Southern families at war : loyalty and conflict in the Civil War South
Author:
Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
Publication Information:
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Physical Description:
xi, 244 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Looking for lost kin: efforts to reunite freed families after emancipation / Michael P. Johnson. -- For better or for worse: black civil war veterans and the persistence of slave marriage customs / Donald R. Shaffer. -- "Of necessity and public benefit" : southern families and their appeals for protection / Amy E. Murrell. -- "High with courage and hope": the Middleton family's Civil War / Judith Lee Hunt. -- "The white wings of Eros" : courtship and marriage in confederate Richmond / E. Susan Barber. -- "Good angels": confederate widowhood in Virginia / Jennifer Lynn Gross. -- "A family of women and children": the fains of East Tennessee during wartime / Daniel W. Stowell. -- Power, sex, and gender roles: the transformation of an Alabama planter family during the Civil War South / Henry Walker. -- Taking up the cross : conversion among black and white Jews in the Civil War South / Lauren F. Winner. -- In the far corner of the confederacy : a question of conscience for German-speaking Texans / Anne J. Bailey. -- Patriarchy in the world where there in no parting? : Power relations in the confederate heaven / Ted Ownby.
ISBN:
9780195136838

9780195136845
Format :
Book