The divided family in Civil War America / Amy Murrell Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Amy Murrell.

Series:

Civil War America.

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--United States--History--19th century.

Families.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting ""brother against brother."" The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession an

Contents:

Union father, rebel son

Marriage and courtship

Brothers and sisters

Border crossing and the treason of family ties

Border dramas and the divided family in the popular imagination

Reconciliations lived and imagined

Reconciliation and emancipation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-307) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908784-6-5

979-88-9313-172-7

0-8078-9907-0

OCLC:

550640927