Southern families at war : loyalty and conflict in the Civil War South / edited by Catherine Clinton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clinton, Catherine, 1952- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Confederate States of America.

Families.

Confederate States of America--History.

Confederate States of America.

Confederate States of America--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 244 p. ) 1map

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Southerners especially found their lives irreversibly changed by the Civil War's terrible toll. This book analyses the experiences of Southern men and women, slave and free, soldiers and civilians, through the prism of the Southern family.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Contributors

Introduction Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict during the Civil War

1. Looking for Lost Kin: Efforts to Reunite Freed Families after Emancipation

2. For Better or for Worse: Black Families and "the State" in Civil War Virginia

3. In the Shadow of the Old Constitution: Black Civil War Veterans and the Persistence of Slave Marriage Customs

4. "Of Necessity and Public Benefit": Southern Families and Their Appeals for Protection

5. "High with Courage and Hope": The Middleton Family's Civil War

6. "The White Wings of Eros": Courtship and Marriage in Confederate Richmond

7. "Good Angels": Confederate Widowhood in Virginia

8. "A Family of Women and Children": The Fains of East Tennessee during Wartime

9. Power, Sex, and Gender Roles: The Transformation of an Alabama Planter Family during the Civil War

10. Taking Up the Cross: Conversion among Black and White Jews in the Civil War South

11. In the Far Corner of the Confederacy: A Question of Conscience for German-Speaking Texans

12. Patriarchy in the World Where There Is No Parting?: Power Relations in the Confederate Heaven.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771639-3

1-280-47363-0

9786610473632

0-19-803129-7

1-282-36722-6

9786612367229

0-19-992376-0

1-4237-3813-6

0-19-535038-3

1-60256-419-1

OCLC:

787843136