The Last Generation
Subtitle: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807829486
Subjects: Slavery & emancipation; Social History; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - U.S; History: American; United States - Civil War; United States - State & Local - South; Reconstruction; generational history; youth culture; Army of Northern Virginia; Jeb Stuart; Sandie Pendleton; Walter Taylor; Civil War; 19th century; Men, White; Politics and government; Social conditions; Virginia; Whites; Young men
First sentence: AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE University of Virginia in, 1854, in his very first speech upon returning to his native King William County, William Roane Aylett proclaimed: The mighty winds which sweep by us on their way to distant lands tell us, at every blast and every whisper their moving principle is progress.
Description: A look at the lives of more than 100 young white men from Virginia's last generation to grow up with the institution of slavery. By examining members of this generation on personal as well as generational and cultural levels, Carmichael sheds light on the formation and reformation of Southern identity.