The Divided Family in Civil War America,9780807829691

The Divided Family in Civil War America

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ISBN13: 9780807829691
ISBN10: 0807829692
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Summary

Taylor looks behind the Civil War metaphor of "brother against brother" to the real experiences of families, particularly in border states, whose households were split by divided loyalties. She studies letters and diaries to understand how families coped with division between husbands and wives, fathers and sons, and she traces the adoption of the image of the "house divided" in newspapers, government documents, and popular fiction to describe the divided nation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(12)
Union Father, Rebel Son
13(22)
Marriage and Courtship
35(28)
Brothers and Sisters
63(28)
Border Crossing and the Treason of Family Ties
91(32)
Border Dramas and the Divided Family in the Popular Imagination
123(30)
Reconciliations Lived and Imagined
153(38)
Reconciliation and Emancipation
191(18)
Epilogue 209(6)
Appendix: A Note on Numbers and Sources 215(2)
Notes 217(62)
Bibliography 279(30)
Index 309

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