The divided family in Civil War America
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
eBook, English, ©2005
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2005
History
1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages) : illustrations.
9780807899076, 9781469605265, 0807899070, 1469605260
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Union father, rebel son
Marriage and courtship
Brothers and sisters
Border crossing and the treason of family ties
Border dramas and the divided family in the popular imagination
Reconciliations lived and imagined
Reconciliation and emancipation
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