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South Carolina in the Civil War : the Confederate experience in letters and diaries / edited by J. Edward Lee and Ron Chepesiuk.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers.
- History.
- South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- South Carolina.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Soldiers--South Carolina--Correspondence.
- South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Confederate States of America. Army.
- Local Subjects:
- Confederate States of America. Army.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Confederate.
- Correspondence.
- Personal narratives.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2000]
- Summary:
- Although modern authors continually produce important studies of the War Between the States, the firsthand accounts of those who were in the conflict remain the most valuable tools for understanding. This collection of letters and diaries provides glimpses into the lives of a diverse group of South Carolinians. Among the seventeen accounts are the voices of women, including a Confederate spy; of officers like Captain Obidiah Hardin, who left his beloved Palmetto State to fight and die in Virginia before the war was even a year old; and of common men, like German immigrant Augustus Franks, whose love for his adopted state compelled him to staunchly defend the Confederacy. Collected from the archives of Winthrop University, these remarkable documents give voices and faces to the war as it affected South Carolina and her citizens.
- Contents:
- 1. Eyewitness to Fort Sumter 5
- 2. Bathed in Blood 13
- 3. For the Widow Hardin 19
- 4. I Am Nearly Crazy 29
- 5. Lieutenant Watson's Camp Reminiscences 76
- 6. For My Only Living Daughter 80
- 7. Trapped on Union Soil 93
- 8. Augustus Franks, German Confederate 99
- 9. My Dear Elodie 106
- 10. A Grand C.S.A. Victory 110
- 11. Our Banner Is Waving 120
- 12. Thirteen Hundred Miles from Any Place 126
- 13. Not Just a Man's War 129
- 14. In the Midst of Life, We Are in the Midst of War 133
- 15. The Ground Where I Lay 138
- 16. There Is a Place We May Meet 145
- 17. The Lost Cause's Last Rites 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0786407948
- OCLC:
- 44612977
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