Civil War Stories is Catherine Clinton's fresh look at some everyday and extraordinary people whose lives were forever transformed by the impact of war. Two sisters, one a staunch defender of the Union, the other a passionate advocate of the rebel cause, are traumatized by the divide the Civil War imposes. Thousands of orphans, scattered from Maine to New Orleans, learn the hard lessons of the war at an early age. Clinton urges us to reconsider this fatherless generation's devastating losses. The war's outcome was acrimoniously contested after Appomattox. The story of two South Carolina women, one black and one white, illuminates that fires of bitterness raged even after surrender.
- ISBN10 0820320285
- ISBN13 9780820320281
- Publish Date 30 September 1998 (first published 1 September 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 July 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Georgia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English