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...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2005
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| Series: | Civil War America (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- 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