When Sherman marched north from the sea
Subtitle: resistance on the Confederate home front
By: Jacqueline Glass Campbell.
Series: Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Sherman's March to the Sea -- Social aspects; Passive resistance -- Confederate States of America -- History; Women -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions; Slaves -- Confederate States of America -- Social conditions; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans; Confederate States of America -- Social conditions
Description: "Sherman's March was an invasion of both geographical and psychological space. The Union army viewed the Southern landscape as military terrain. But when they brought war into Southern households, Northern soldiers were frequently astounded by the fierceness with which white Southern women defended their homes. Campbell argues that in the household-centered South, Confederate women saw both ideological and material reasons to resist. While some Northern soldiers lauded this bravery, others regarded such behavior as inappropriate and unwomanly."

"Campbell also investigates the complexities behind African Americans' decisions either to stay on the plantation or to flee with Union troops. Black Southerners' delight at the coming of the army of "emancipation" often turned to terror as Yankees plundered their homes and assaulted black women."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Savannah has gone up the spout; title: Rocking the cradle of secession; title: The most diabolical act of all the barbarous war; title: God save us from the retreating friend and advancing foe; title: With grief, but not with shame.