Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 385 p)
ISBN:
1283303698
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9781283303699
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9780820341859
Series Statement:
Uncivil wars
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART 1. DEATH BECOMES US: THE CIVIL WAR AND THE APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION -- Letting the War Slip through Our Hands: Material Culture and the Weakness of Words in the Civil War Era -- The Pleasures of Civil War Ruins -- Confederate Menace: Sequestration on the North Carolina Home Front -- PART 2. HELL'S BELLES: NEW LOOKS AT CIVIL WAR WOMEN -- The Tale of Three Kates: Outlaw Women, Loyalty, and Missouri's Long Civil War -- "Days of lightly-won and lightly-held hearts": Courtship and Coquetry in the Southern Confederacy -- Love Is a Battlefield: Lizzie Alsop's Flirtation with the Confederacy -- PART 3. INSIDE THE CIVIL WAR BODY -- Dissecting the Torture of Mrs. Owens: The Story of a Civil War Atrocity -- Hungry People in the Wartime South: Civilians, Armies, and the Food Supply -- The Historian as Death Investigator -- PART 4. THE TORTUOUS ROAD TO FREEDOM -- How a Cold Snap in Kentucky Led to Freedom for Thousands: An Environmental Story of Emancipation -- Rituals of Horsemanship: A Speculation on the Ring Tournament and the Origins of the Ku Klux Klan -- The Loyal Deserters: African American Soldiers and Community in Civil War Memphis -- PART 5. HONOR IS THE GIFT A MAN GIVES HIMSELF - AND MEN CAN BE VERY, VERY GENEROUS -- The Arrest and Court-Martial of Captain George Dobson -- Soldier- Speak -- The Civil War Career of General James Abbott Whistler -- PART 6. PICKING UP THE PIECES -- Confederate Amputees and the Women Who Loved (or Tried to Love) Them -- "Will They Ever Be Able to Forget?": Confederate Soldiers and Mental Illness in the Defeated South -- Ira Forbes's War -- Afterword -- The Weirdlings -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1. DEATH BECOMES US: THE CIVIL WAR AND THE APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION""; ""Letting the War Slip through Our Hands: Material Culture and the Weakness of Words in the Civil War Era""; ""The Pleasures of Civil War Ruins""; ""Confederate Menace: Sequestration on the North Carolina Home Front""; ""PART 2. HELL�S BELLES: NEW LOOKS AT CIVIL WAR WOMEN""; ""The Tale of Three Kates: Outlaw Women, Loyalty, and Missouri�s Long Civil War""
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""“Days of lightly-won and lightly-held hearts�: Courtship and Coquetry in the Southern Confederacy""""Love Is a Battlefield: Lizzie Alsop�s Flirtation with the Confederacy""; ""PART 3. INSIDE THE CIVIL WAR BODY""; ""Dissecting the Torture of Mrs. Owens: The Story of a Civil War Atrocity""; ""Hungry People in the Wartime South: Civilians, Armies, and the Food Supply""; ""The Historian as Death Investigator""; ""PART 4. THE TORTUOUS ROAD TO FREEDOM""; ""How a Cold Snap in Kentucky Led to Freedom for Thousands: An Environmental Story of Emancipation""
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""Rituals of Horsemanship: A Speculation on the Ring Tournament and the Origins of the Ku Klux Klan""""The Loyal Deserters: African American Soldiers and Community in Civil War Memphis""; ""PART 5. HONOR IS THE GIFT A MAN GIVES HIMSELF � AND MEN CAN BE VERY, VERY GENEROUS""; ""The Arrest and Court-Martial of Captain George Dobson""; ""Soldier- Speak""; ""The Civil War Career of General James Abbott Whistler""; ""PART 6. PICKING UP THE PIECES""; ""Confederate Amputees and the Women Who Loved (or Tried to Love) Them""
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""“Will They Ever Be Able to Forget?�: Confederate Soldiers and Mental Illness in the Defeated South""""Ira Forbes�s War""; ""Afterword""; ""The Weirdlings""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283300648
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820341279
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820334134
Additional Edition:
Print version Weirding the War : Stories from the Civil War's Ragged Edges
Language:
English
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