An East Texas Family’s Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An East Texas Family’s Civil War write by John T. Whatley. This book was released on 2019-04-17. An East Texas Family’s Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family’s Civil War, the Whatleys’ great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy’s letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.
An East Texas Family’s Civil War
An East Texas Family’s Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An East Texas Family’s Civil War write by John T. Whatley. This book was released on 2019-04-17. An East Texas Family’s Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family’s Civil War, the Whatleys’ great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy’s letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.
East Texas in the Civil War
East Texas in the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East Texas in the Civil War write by Ronald Leon Benjamin. This book was released on 1970. East Texas in the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women in Civil War Texas
Women in Civil War Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Civil War Texas write by Deborah M. Liles. This book was released on 2016-10-15. Women in Civil War Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women in Civil War Texas is the first book dedicated to the unique experiences of Texas women during the Civil War. It fills the literary void in Texas women’s history during this time, connects Texas women’s lives to southern women’s history, and shares the diversity of experiences of women in Texas during the Civil War. An introductory essay situates the anthology within both Civil War and Texas women’s history. Contributors explore Texas women and their vocal support for secession and in support of a war, coping with their husbands’ wartime absences, the importance of letter-writing as a means of connecting families, and how pro-Union sentiment caused serious difficulties for women. They also analyze the effects of ethnicity, focusing on African American, German, and Tejana women’s experiences. Finally, two essays examine the problem of refugee women in east Texas and the dangers facing western frontier women. These essays develop the historical understanding of what it meant to be a Texas woman during the Civil War and also contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the war and its effects.
Texas and Texans in the Civil War
Texas and Texans in the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Texas and Texans in the Civil War write by Ralph A. Wooster. This book was released on 1995. Texas and Texans in the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A well-researched volume, drawing from primary documents, official records, manuscripts and printed sources and works of other Texas and Civil War historians.
