The Last Generation
Subtitle: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (Civil War America)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 15, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780807861851
Subjects: History -- Americas -- United States -- Civil War; History -- Historical Study -- Social History; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Gender Studies -- 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.