Southern Families at War

Whether it was planter patriarchs struggling to maintain authority or Jewish families coerced by Christian evangelicalism or wives and mothers left behind to care for slaves and children the Civil War took a terrible toll. From the bustling sidewalks of Richmond to the parched plains of the Texas frontier from the rich Alabama black belt to the Tennessee woodlands no corner of the South went unscathed. Through the prism of the southern family this volume of twelve original essays provides fresh insights into this watershed in American history.