Thinking You Might Like to Know What Was Going on Back Home

<p>“Thinking you might like to know what was going on back home” in Calhoun County Ala. during the Civil War</p><p>• Describes the life and times of the common people in a Southern county from the firing on Fort Sumter to the surrender at the Appomattox Court House and beyond;<br />• Uses the local newspaper to take you back to the years 1861 – 1865;<br />• Tells the untold story of the Southern women during the Civil War;<br />• Reveals the plight of the African American as a slave and that of a freedman;<br />• Shows the belief to which the “hand of Providence” was thought to play in the success of battles outcome of the war and destiny of our civilized country;<br />• Illustrates the change in the South’s social system from Antebellum to Reconstruction;<br />• Shows the role in which the newspaper played in shaping the thoughts and conscientious of the Southern mind;<br />• Identifies the historical sites and events which occurred in this area during a most turbulent period in our American history;<br />• Gives accounts and reports of battles from local military commanders soldiers and war correspondents;<br />• Serves as a directory of Who’s Who in Calhoun County Alabama during the Civil War;<br />• Takes you on the emotional roller coaster ride of the Southern people from the ecstasy of Southern Independence to the utter ruin of their way of life; and<br />• Provides an understanding as to “Why we (the Southern people) are what we are today.”</p>