Based on extensive research into newly discovered documents, this new edition of the popular volume offers an updated look at the daily lives of ordinary citizens caught up in the Civil War.
When first published, Daily Life in Civil War America shifted the spotlight from the conflict's military operations and famous leaders to its affect on day-to-day living. Now this popular, groundbreaking work returns in a thoroughly updated new edition, drawing on an expanded range of journals, journalism, diaries, and correspondence to capture the realities of wartime life for soldiers and citizens, slaves and free persons, women and children, on both sides of the conflict.
In addition to chapter-by-chapter updating, the edition features new chapters on two important topics: the affects of the war on families, focusing on the absence of men on the home front and the plight of nearly 26,000 children orphaned by the war; and the activities of the Copperheads, anti-Confederate border residents, and other Southern pacifist groups.
- Includes excerpts from a wide range of first-person original writings, including diaries, letters, journals, and newspaper articles
- Presents over 50 images, including photographs, posters, and contemporary illustrations, much of it from the author's own collection
- ISBN10 0313366039
- ISBN13 9780313366031
- Publish Date 13 October 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Greenwood Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 397
- Language English