The Divided Family in Civil War America, 1860-1870 - 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 The Divided Family in Civil War America, 1860-1870 write by Amy Elizabeth Murrell. This book was released on 2001. The Divided Family in Civil War America, 1860-1870 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Divided Family in Civil War America
The Divided Family in Civil War America - 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 The Divided Family in Civil War America write by Amy Murrell Taylor. This book was released on 2009-11-04. The Divided Family in Civil War America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Civil War has long been described as a war pitting "brother against brother." The divided family is an enduring metaphor for the divided nation, but it also accurately reflects the reality of America's bloodiest war. Connecting the metaphor to the real experiences of families whose households were split by conflicting opinions about the war, Amy Murrell Taylor provides a social and cultural history of the divided family in Civil War America. In hundreds of border state households, brothers--and sisters--really did fight one another, while fathers and sons argued over secession and husbands and wives struggled with opposing national loyalties. Even enslaved men and women found themselves divided over how to respond to the war. Taylor studies letters, diaries, newspapers, and government documents to understand how families coped with the unprecedented intrusion of war into their private lives. Family divisions inflamed the national crisis while simultaneously embodying it on a small scale--something noticed by writers of popular fiction and political rhetoric, who drew explicit connections between the ordeal of divided families and that of the nation. Weaving together an analysis of this popular imagery with the experiences of real families, Taylor demonstrates how the effects of the Civil War went far beyond the battlefield to penetrate many facets of everyday life.
Blood Brothers
Blood Brothers - 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 Blood Brothers write by Ronald E Pressley. This book was released on 2019-09-16. Blood Brothers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Blood Brothers uses a factual historical background to illustrate the personal implications of political upheaval and class stratification. A young Irishman leaves his home and family to find work in London. Experiencing only bad luck, he takes another chance by immigrating to North Carolina in 1830 with nothing but a contract of indenture and belief in his ability to creat a better life for himself. What happens to him and the famiy he builds is based loosely on a family legend of three brothers from a large working-class family who chose diffefrent paths during the American Civil War. We follow the separate stories of the two who became Confederate soldiers, the one who defied family and friends to join the Union army, and the family left behind to deal with the collateral damage of war. A rich man's war is a poor man's fight.
Take Care of the Living
Take Care of the Living - 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 Take Care of the Living write by Jeffrey W. McClurken. This book was released on 2009-08-11. Take Care of the Living available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Take Care of the Living assesses the short- and long-term impact of the war on Confederate veteran families of all classes in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia. Using letters, diaries, church minutes, and military and state records, as well as close analysis of the entire 1860 and 1870 Pittsylvania County manuscript population census, McClurken explores the consequences of the war for over three thousand Confederate soldiers and their families. The author reveals an array of strategies employed by those families to come to terms with their postwar reality, including reorganizing and reconstructing the household, turning to local churches for emotional and economic support, pleading with local elites for financial assistance or positions, sending psychologically damaged family members to a state-run asylum, and looking to the state for direct assistance in the form of replacement limbs for amputees, pensions, and even state-supported homes for old soldiers and widows. Although these strategies or institutions for reconstructing the family had their roots in existing practices, the extreme need brought on by the scope and impact of the Civil War required an expansion beyond anything previously seen. McClurken argues that this change serves as a starting point for the study of the evolution of southern welfare.
Embattled Freedom
Embattled Freedom - 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 Embattled Freedom write by Amy Murrell Taylor. This book was released on 2018-10-26. Embattled Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war. Amy Murrell Taylor vividly reconstructs the human world of wartime emancipation, taking readers inside military-issued tents and makeshift towns, through commissary warehouses and active combat, and into the realities of individuals and families struggling to survive physically as well as spiritually. Narrating their journeys in and out of the confines of the camps, Taylor shows in often gripping detail how the most basic necessities of life were elemental to a former slave's quest for freedom and full citizenship. The stories of individuals--storekeepers, a laundress, and a minister among them--anchor this ambitious and wide-ranging history and demonstrate with new clarity how contingent the slaves' pursuit of freedom was on the rhythms and culture of military life. Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nation's most destructive war.
