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Title Southern families at war : loyalty and conflict in the Civil War South / edited by Catherine Clinton
Published Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages)
Contents Looking for lost kin : efforts to reunite freed families after emancipation / Michael P. Johnson -- For better or for worse : black families and "the state" in Civil War Virginia -- In the shadow of the old constitution : black Civil War veterans and the persistence of slave marriage customs / Donald R. Shaffer -- "Of necessity and public benefit" : southern families and their appeals for protection / Amy E. Murrell -- "High with courage and hope" : the Middleton family's Civil War / Judith Lee Hunt -- "The white wings of Eros" : courtship and marriage in Confederate Richmond / E. Susan Barber -- "Good angels" : Confederate widowhood in Virginia / Jennifer Lynn Gross -- "A family of women and children" : the Fains of East Tennessee during wartime / Daniel W. Stowell -- Power, sex, and gender roles : the transformation of an Alabama planter family during the Civil War South / Henry Walker -- Taking up the cross : conversion among black and white Jews in the Civil War South / Lauren F. Winner -- In the far corner of the Confederacy : a question of conscience for German-speaking Texans / Anne J. Bailey -- Patriarchy in the world where there is no parting? : Power relations in the Confederate heaven / Ted Ownby
Summary Whether it was planter patriarchs struggling to maintain authority, Jewish families coerced by Christian evangelicalism, or wives and mothers left behind to care for slaves and children, the Civil War took a terrible toll. From the bustling sidewalks of Richmond to the parched plains of the Texas frontier, from the rich Alabama black belt to the Tennessee woodlands, no corner of the South went unscathed. This volume of twelve essays provides an insight in to this watershed in American history, through the prism of the Southern family
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Families -- Southern States -- 19th century
Families -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY.
Families
Social aspects
Social conditions
Bürgerkrieg
Familie
SUBJECT Confederate States of America -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85030860
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
Subject Southern States
United States
United States -- Confederate States of America
USA -- Südstaaten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
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