Civil War witnesses and their books : new perspectives on iconic works / edited by Gary W. Gallagher & Stephen Cushman.

"Civil War Witnesses and Their Books" offers an analysis of books written by individuals who experienced the American Civil War. It follows a similar volume-Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (LSU Press, 2019)-which also examined some of the most important writings about the conflic...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gallagher, Gary W. (Editor)
Cushman, Stephen, 1956- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Series:Conflicting worlds.
Subjects:
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Sources.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Historiography.
Historiography.
United States.
1861-1865
History.
Personal narratives.
Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Personal narratives.
History.
Physical Description:viii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen B. Cushman
  • From Manassas to Appomattox: James Longstreet's memoir and the limits of Confederate reconciliation / Elizabeth R. Varon
  • A modern sensibility in older garb: Henry Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power and the beginnings of Civil War history / William A. Blair
  • "The brisk and brilliant matron of Chimborazo Hospital": Phoebe Yates Pember's nurse narrative / Sarah E. Gardner
  • George McClellan's many turnings / Stephen B. Cushman
  • Maria Lydig Daly: Diary of a Union Lady 1961-1865 / J. Matthew Gallman
  • John D. Billings's Hardtack and Coffee: a Union fighting man's Civil War / M. Keith Harris
  • One widow's wars: the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the West in Elizabeth Bacon Custer's memoirs / Cecily N. Zander
  • Proximity and numbers: Walter H. Taylor shapes Confederate history and memory / Gary W. Gallagher.