num_pages: 240
description: Compiled by the son of a Confederate soldier, this treasury of reminiscences includes letters written by soldiers on the battlefield, in hospitals and prisons, diary entries of life behind the lines, journals kept on the homefront, stories told to children and grandchildren, more. Intimate, compelling record of the war from the Southern side. Foreword.
language: English
title: True Tales of the South at War: How Soldiers Fought and Families Lived, 1861-1865
titlecomplete: True Tales of the South at War: How Soldiers Fought and Families Lived, 1861-1865 (Civil War)
genres: American History, History
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Dover Publications