Reluctant Witnesses
Subtitle: Children's Voices from the Civil War
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780813328232
Subjects: Adolescents; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: general; Children; Civil war; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; History; History - U.S.; USA; Children's Studies; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; United States - Civil War; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Psychology-Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Social Science-Children's Studies; Sociology; Witnesses; Psychology
First sentence: ON APRIL 2, 1861, FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Elizabeth Horton from Mo, Alabama, wrote to her cousin Emma Barbour, age seventeen, in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts: "Times are indeed troublous, when our city is so flooded with soldiers, thirsting for the blood of those whom they consider their enemies.