Weirding the war : stories from the Civil War's ragged edges /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Uncivil wars.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Letting the war slip through our hands : material culture and the weakness of words in the Civil War era / Michael DeGruccio
- The pleasures of Civil War ruins / Megan Kate Nelson
- Confederate menace : sequestration on the North Carolina home front / Rodney J. Steward
- The tale of three Kates : outlaw women, loyalty, and Missouri's long Civil War / LeeAnn Whites
- "Days of lightly-won and lightly-held hearts" : courtship and coquetry in the Southern Confederacy / Anya Jabour
- Love is a battlefield : Lizzie Alsop's flirtation with the Confederacy / Steven E. Nash
- Dissecting the torture of Mrs. Owens : the story of a Civil War atrocity / Barton A. Myers
- Hungry people in the wartime South : civilians, armies, and the food supply / Joan E. Cashin
- The historian as death investigator / Stephen Berry.
- How a cold snap in Kentucky led to freedom for thousands : an environmental story of emancipation / Amy Murrell Taylor
- Rituals of horsemanship : a speculation on the ring tournament and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan / Paul Christopher Anderson
- The loyal deserters : African American soldiers and community in Civil War Memphis / Andrew L. Slap
- The arrest and court martial of Captain George Dobson / Kenneth W. Noe
- Soldier-speak / Peter S. Carmichael
- The Civil War career of General James Abbott Whistler / Daniel E. Sutherland
- Confederate amputees and the women who loved (or tried to love) them / Brian Craig Miller
- "Will they ever be able to forget?" : Confederate soldiers and mental illness in the defeated South / Diane Miller Sommerville
- Ira Forbes's war / Lesley J. Gordon
- Afterword / Michael Fellman.