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• catalog abstract ""Out of the three million who fought, six hundred thousand died. The U.S. Civil War affected not only the soldiers who fought, but everyone. It was a war that forever altered the lives of countless men, women, and children. Diaries, letters, journal entries, and newspaper articles recount the stories, feelings, and actions of people who experienced the war firsthand. In addition, this illuminating collection: brings together in one source information and experiences from the North and South, black and white, young and old, male and female; includes the writings of George Templeton Strong, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, and Ambrose Bierce; gives firsthand accounts of key events like the draft riots in New York City and the Siege of Vicksburg; and conveys the complexity of relationships between soldiers and civilians, Northerners and Southern African Americans, Union men and Southern women." "Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front recounts the personal experiences of slaves, slave owners, refugees, dissenters, journalists, veterans, widows, and orphans alike. Civil War buffs, students, scholars, and general readers will read stories of the war never told before."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12840812.
• catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.".
• catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects.".
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""Out of the three million who fought, six hundred thousand died. The U.S. Civil War affected not only the soldiers who fought, but everyone. It was a war that forever altered the lives of countless men, women, and children. Diaries, letters, journal entries, and newspaper articles recount the stories, feelings, and actions of people who experienced the war firsthand. In addition, this illuminating collection: brings together in one source information and experiences from the North and South, black and white, young and old, male and female; includes the writings of George Templeton Strong, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, and Ambrose Bierce; gives firsthand accounts of key events like the draft riots in New York City and the Siege of Vicksburg; and conveys the complexity of relationships between soldiers and civilians, Northerners and Southern African Americans, Union men and Southern women." "Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front recounts the personal experiences of slaves, slave owners, refugees, dissenters, journalists, veterans, widows, and orphans alike. Civil War buffs, students, scholars, and general readers will read stories of the war never told before."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-334) and index.".
• catalog description "pt. 1. Southern civilians under siege. The last fire-eater : Edmund Ruffin -- Times to try a woman's soul -- A miserable, frightened life : Southern refugees -- "A species of passionate insanity" : women of Vicksburg -- Culture clash : invaders and rebels in the occupied South -- A lukewarm people : home front dissenters in the Confederacy -- "I ain't ashamed of nuthin" : Bill Arp explains the Confederate home front -- pt. 2. Northern society at war. George Templeton Strong and the serious job of journalizing -- Reporting the war : Civil War journalism in the North -- Literary nurses : Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman -- Thinking big : love and advice from Civil War fathers -- A record of munificence : supporting the troops -- "The bloody week" : the New York City draft riots -- pt. 3. The children's Civil War. Rabid partisans among their playmates -- What a difference a war makes -- A Northern boy and a Southern girl -- Playing soldier : Phip Flaxen and the watermelon war -- Oliver Optic's Civil War : Northern children and the literary war for the Union -- pt. 4. African Americans and the war. Havens and hellholes : challenges and opportunities in the contraband camps -- Testing the boundaries : slave lives in the Confederacy -- Free to learn : educating freedpeople -- pt. 5. Aftermaths. "That such a thing could ever happen" : the death of a president -- Out at the soldiers' home : Union veterans -- Children of the battlefield : soldiers' orphans -- Up from slavery : African Americans after the war -- "True soldiers of the Southern cross" : Confederate women and the lost cause -- The devil's Civil War : the stories of Ambrose Bierce.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 346 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1576072371 (hardcover)".
• catalog identifier "1851095020 (e-book)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO,".
• catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.".
• catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Social aspects.".
• catalog subject "973.7/1 21".
• catalog subject "E468.9 .M127 2003".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Southern civilians under siege. The last fire-eater : Edmund Ruffin -- Times to try a woman's soul -- A miserable, frightened life : Southern refugees -- "A species of passionate insanity" : women of Vicksburg -- Culture clash : invaders and rebels in the occupied South -- A lukewarm people : home front dissenters in the Confederacy -- "I ain't ashamed of nuthin" : Bill Arp explains the Confederate home front -- pt. 2. Northern society at war. George Templeton Strong and the serious job of journalizing -- Reporting the war : Civil War journalism in the North -- Literary nurses : Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman -- Thinking big : love and advice from Civil War fathers -- A record of munificence : supporting the troops -- "The bloody week" : the New York City draft riots -- pt. 3. The children's Civil War. Rabid partisans among their playmates -- What a difference a war makes -- A Northern boy and a Southern girl -- Playing soldier : Phip Flaxen and the watermelon war -- Oliver Optic's Civil War : Northern children and the literary war for the Union -- pt. 4. African Americans and the war. Havens and hellholes : challenges and opportunities in the contraband camps -- Testing the boundaries : slave lives in the Confederacy -- Free to learn : educating freedpeople -- pt. 5. Aftermaths. "That such a thing could ever happen" : the death of a president -- Out at the soldiers' home : Union veterans -- Children of the battlefield : soldiers' orphans -- Up from slavery : African Americans after the war -- "True soldiers of the Southern cross" : Confederate women and the lost cause -- The devil's Civil War : the stories of Ambrose Bierce.".
• catalog title "Civil War America : voices from the home front / James Marten.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "Personal narratives. fast".
• catalog type "text".