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Upcountry South Carolina goes to war : letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families, 1853-1865 / edited by Tom Moore Craig ; introduction by Melissa Walker and Tom Moore Craig.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anderson family--Correspondence.
- Anderson family.
- Brockman family--Correspondence.
- Brockman family.
- Moore family--Correspondence.
- Moore family.
- Rural families--South Carolina--Spartanburg County--Social conditions--19th century--Sources.
- Rural families.
- Country life--South Carolina--Spartanburg County--History--19th century--Sources.
- Country life.
- Agriculture--South Carolina--Spartanburg County--History--19th century--Sources.
- Agriculture.
- Spartanburg County (S.C.)--History--19th century--Sources.
- Spartanburg County (S.C.).
- Spartanburg County (S.C.)--Social conditions--19th century--Sources.
- South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.
- South Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of Civil War correspondence chronicles the lives and concerns of three Confederate families in Piedmont, South Carolina. The letters in Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War provide valuable firsthand accounts of both battlefronts and the home front, sharing rich details about daily life as well as evolving attitudes toward the war. As the men of service age from each family join the Confederate ranks, they begin writing from military camps in Virginia and the Carolinas, describing combat in some of the war's more significant battles. Though they remain staunch patriots to the Southern cause until the bitter end, the surviving combatants write candidly of their waning enthusiasm in the face of the realities of combat. The corresponding letters from the home front offer a more pragmatic assessment of the period and its hardships. Emblematic of the fates of many Southern families, the experiences of these representative South Carolinians are dramatically illustrated in their letters from the eve of the Civil War through its conclusion.
- Notes:
- "Published in Cooperation with the South Caroliniana Library with the Assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613622761
- 9781280592935
- 1280592931
- 9781611171105
- 1611171105
- OCLC:
- 795354069
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