Weirding the war
Subtitle: stories from the Civil War's ragged edges
By: edited by Stephen Berry
Series: Uncivil wars
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780820334134; 9780820341279
Subjects: Social aspects; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Letting the war slip through our hands : material culture and the weakness of words in the Civil War era / Michael DeGruccio; title: The pleasures of Civil War ruins / Megan Kate Nelson; title: Confederate menace : sequestration on the North Carolina home front / Rodney J. Steward; title: The tale of three Kates : outlaw women, loyalty, and Missouri's long Civil War / LeeAnn Whites; title: "Days of lightly-won and lightly-held hearts" : courtship and coquetry in the Southern Confederacy / Anya Jabour; title: Love is a battlefield : Lizzie Alsop's flirtation with the Confederacy / Steven E. Nash; title: Dissecting the torture of Mrs. Owens : the story of a Civil War atrocity / Barton A. Myers; title: Hungry people in the wartime South : civilians, armies, and the food supply / Joan E. Cashin; title: The historian as death investigator / Stephen Berry.; title: How a cold snap in Kentucky led to freedom for thousands : an environmental story of emancipation / Amy Murrell Taylor; title: Rituals of horsemanship : a speculation on the ring tournament and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan / Paul Christopher Anderson; title: The loyal deserters : African American soldiers and community in Civil War Memphis / Andrew L. Slap; title: The arrest and court martial of Captain George Dobson / Kenneth W. Noe; title: Soldier-speak / Peter S. Carmichael; title: The Civil War career of General James Abbott Whistler / Daniel E. Sutherland; title: Confederate amputees and the women who loved (or tried to love) them / Brian Craig Miller; title: "Will they ever be able to forget?" : Confederate soldiers and mental illness in the defeated South / Diane Miller Sommerville; title: Ira Forbes's war / Lesley J. Gordon; title: Afterword / Michael Fellman.