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Civil War stories / Catherine Clinton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
- Series:
- Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ; no. 7.
- Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt lecture series ; no. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects--Anecdotes.
- United States.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Psychological aspects--Anecdotes.
- Psychological aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women--Anecdotes.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Children--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 130 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Civil War Stones is Catherine Clinton's fresh look at some everyday and extraordinary people whose lives were forever transformed by the impact of war. Her multifaceted perspective includes the stories of sisters, children, and friends torn apart by the crisis of Confederate independence, as well as those to whom silence was a way to "keep the peace, " although true peace would never again be restored.
- Two sisters, one a staunch defender of the Union, the other a passionate advocate of the rebel cause, are traumatized by the divide the Civil War imposes. Thousands of orphans, scattered from Maine to New Orleans, learn the hard lessons of the war at an early age. Clinton urges us to reconsider this fatherless generation's devastating losses. The wars outcome was acrimoniously contested after Appomattox. The story of two South Carolina women, one black and one white, illuminates that fires of bitterness raged on even after surrender.
- Clinton suggests those on opposing sides sought to vindicate their losses and assert their rights by taking up the pen. The histories and memoirs she contrasts, the lives she reconstructs, and the stories she highlights provide appreciation of the cultural impact of the American Civil War, for those who endured it and for those of us who continue to be fascinated by its legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-122) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820320285
- 0820320749
- OCLC:
- 38856124
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