| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
stories from the Civil War's ragged edges |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
BerryStephen William, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Athens |
| Published: |
University of Georgia Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (352 p.). |
| Series: |
Uncivil wars |
| Subject: |
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820341859/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780820341859electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0820341851electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780820334134hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0820334138hbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780820341279pbk. |
| Content Note: |
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 tourclment and the origins of the KuKlux Klan / Paul Christopher Anderson -- The loyal deserters : AfricanAmerican 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 |
| Content Note: |
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-wonand lightly-held hearts" : courtship and coquetry in the Southern Confederacy / Anya Jabour -- Loveis 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 |