Confederate phoenix
Subtitle: rebel children and their families in South Carolina
By: Edmund L. Drago.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780823229376
Subjects: Child soldiers -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century; Children -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century; Teenagers -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Juvenile; South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Juvenile; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Children; South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Children
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : les enfants de la guerre; title: Children as a factor in war strategy; title: Boy soldiers and their families; title: Childrearing; title: "Spilt milk" : three family cameos; title: Education and nation building; title: "Something for the girls" : marriage customs and girlhood; title: "Going up the spout" : converging defeat on the battlefield and home front; title: Baptism by fire; title: Widows and orphans; title: Reconstruction and redemption: the Civil War, part II; title: The last phoenix : conflicting legacies, 1890-2007; title: Appendix A : methodology; title: Appendix B : conscription.