Confederate Phoenix : Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina / Edmund L. Drago.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Drago, Edmund L., Author.

Series:

Reconstructing America

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.) : 8 Illustrations, black and white

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this innovative book, Edmund L. Drago tells the first full story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state, and the state where the Civil War erupted. Drawing on a rich array of sources, many of them formerly untapped, Drago shows how the War transformed the domestic world of the white South. Households were devastated by disease, death, and deprivation. Young people took up arms like adults, often with tragic results. Thousands of fathers and brothers died in battle; many returned home with grave physical and psychological wounds. Widows and orphans often had to fend for themselves. From the first volley at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor to the end of Reconstruction, Drago explores the extraordinary impact of war and defeat on the South Carolina home front. He covers a broad spectrum, from the effect of “boy soldiers” on the ideals of childhood and child rearing to changes in education, marriage customs, and community as well as family life. He surveys the children’s literature of the era and explores the changing dimensions of Confederate patriarchal society. By studying the implications of the War and its legacy in cultural memory, Drago unveils the conflicting perspectives of South Carolina children—white and black—today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: Les Enfants de la Guerre

1 Children as a Factor in War Strategy

2 Boy Soldiers and Their Families

3 Childrearing

4 ‘‘Spilt Milk’’: Three Family Cameos

5 Education and Nation Building

6 ‘‘Something for the Girls’’: Marriage Customs and Girlhood

7 ‘‘Going up the Spout’’: Converging Defeat on the Battlefield and Home Front

8 Baptism by Fire

9 Widows and Orphans

10 Reconstruction and Redemption: The Civil War, Part II

11 The Last Phoenix: Conflicting Legacies, 1890–2007

Appendix A: Methodology

Appendix B: Conscription

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9123-5

OCLC:

1350688265