I do wish this cruel war was over
Subtitle: first-person accounts of Civil War Arkansas from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly
By: edited by Mark K. Christ and Patrick G. Williams
Series: The Civil War in the West
Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781557286475
Subjects: History; Personal narratives; American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658
Other titles: First-person accounts of Civil War Arkansas from the Arkansas Historical Quarterly; Arkansas historical quarterly.
Description: "...collects diaries, letters, and memoirs excerpted from their original publication in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly to offer a first-hand, ground-level view of the war's horrors, its mundane hardships, its pitched battles and languid stretches, even its moments of frivolity. Readers will find varying degrees of commitment and different motivations among soldiers on both sides, along with the perspective of civilians. In many cases, these documents address aspects of the war that would become objects of scholarly and popular fascination only years after their initial appearance: the guerrilla conflict that became the "real war" west of the Mississippi; the "hard war" waged against civilians long before William Tecumseh Sherman set foot in Georgia; the work of women in maintaining households in the absence of men; and the complexities of emancipation, which saw African Americans winning freedom and sometimes losing it all over again"--[P. 4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A holy and just cause"; title: "These dismal mountains"; title: "The atmosphere begins to smell a little gunpowderish"; title: "This campaign was very destructive"; title: "Lonely, hopeless days."