Home Voices Speak Louder Than the Drums
Subtitle: Dreams and the Imagination in Civil War Letters and Memoirs
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781476665580
Subjects: United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, biography
Description: "Providing fresh perspective on the human side of the Civil War, this book explores the dreams and imaginings of those who fought it, as recorded in their letters, journals and memoirs. Sometimes published as poems or songs or printed in newspapers, these rarely acknowledged writings reflect the personalities and experiences of their authors"--