10 Civil War Diaries

di Lemuel Abijah Abbott (Autore)

Mary Ann Loughborough (Autore)

John Beauchamp Jones (Autore)

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e-artnow, 2024

10 Civil War Diaries assembles intimate records of the American Civil War, tracing how military conflict entered homes, cities, plantations, hospitals, and routes of displacement. The selections range from compressed daily notation and reflective observation to political commentary and vivid scenes of scarcity, grief, religious conviction, and endurance. Especially striking are accounts of besieged communities and the shifting moral language through which civilians interpret war. Together, these documents place private writing at the center of Civil War literary culture, where immediacy and retrospection continually meet. The contributors include women and men writing from distinct regional, social, and national positions, including Southern civilians, Union-minded observers, and transatlantic witnesses. Their diaries illuminate the intersections of domestic life, public ideology, gendered experience, and wartime journalism. As a collective, these voices belong to the broader documentary culture of the nineteenth century: a culture shaped by reform, sectional crisis, print circulation, and the effort to preserve daily experience amid historical rupture. Their differences enrich rather than resolve the volume's portrait of conflict. Recommended for students, historians, and general readers, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare perspectives within a single archival frame. Its varied styles and assumptions invite close reading, while the dialogue among the diaries reveals the Civil War as both a national event and a succession of intensely personal encounters.

• Autore: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Mary Ann Loughborough, John Beauchamp Jones
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: e-artnow
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 4066339592117