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Household war : how Americans lived and fought the Civil War / edited by Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Frank, Lisa Tendrich, editor.
Whites, LeeAnn, editor.
JSTOR (Online Service)
Series:
Uncivil wars
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Families--United States--History--19th century.
Families.
Households--United States--History--19th century.
Households.
History.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
United States.
Social aspects.
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
Social conditions.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2020]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction : the Civil War as a household war / Lisa Tendrich Frank and LeeAnn Whites
The material world of Mary Todd Lincoln : her households in peace and war / Joan E. Cashin
Householder and general : Lee's war as a household war / Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
The divided houses of Ulysses S. Grant / Brooks D. Simpson
The soldier's dream of home / Jonathan W. White
"Now I can bear my ills patiently" : the expanding realm of Wisconsin households during the Civil War / Julie A. Mujic
Written on the heart : soldiers' letters, the household supply line, and the relational war / LeeAnn Whites
A "fearful family quarrel" : the Union assault on southern households as battle strategy / Lisa Tendrich Frank
War's domestic corollary : Union occupation households in the Civil War South / Margaret Storey
Creek and Seminole households on the trail of blood on ice / Andrew K. Frank
"A terrible way to bring up children" : escaped prisoners and the home as site of war / Lorien Foote
Disordered households : Reconstruction, Klan terror, and the law / Victoria E. Bynum
Dead husband, dead son : widows, mothers-in-law, and mourning in the Confederacy / Angela Esco Elder
Stand by your manhood : the United Confederate veterans and the rehabilitation of the Southern household / Brian Craig Miller
Afterword : from household to personhood in America / Stephen Berry.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780820356303
0820356301
Publisher Number:
40029705518
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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