The Confederate Homefront
Subtitle: A History in Documents
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: May 08, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807165720
Description: Wallace Hettle's The Confederate Homefront provides a sample of the enormous documentary record on the domestic population of the Confederate states, offering a glimpse of what it was like to live through a brutal war fought almost entirely on southern soil. The Confederate Homefront collects excerpts from slave narratives, poems, diaries and journals, along with brief introductions that examine the circumstances and biases of each source. The first documentary history to foreground the experiences of Confederate civilians, The Confederate Homefront illuminates the overlooked lives of non-combatants in the Civil War and bears witness to the traumatic final years of the institution of American slavery. -- Back cover.
Notes: Source title: The Confederate Homefront: A History in Documents