Cultures in Conflict--The American Civil War
Steven E. Woodworth Cultures in Conflict–The American Civil War
Greenwood | 2000 | ISBN: 0313306516 | 240 pages | PDF | 13,3 MB
Greenwood | 2000 | ISBN: 0313306516 | 240 pages | PDF | 13,3 MB
The American Civil War was primarily a conflict of cultures, and slavery was the largest single cultural factor separating North and South. This collection of carefully selected memoirs, diaries, letters, and reminiscences of ordinary Northerners and Southerners who experienced the war as soldiers or civilians brings to life the conflict in culture, principles, attitudes, hopes, courage, and suffering of both sides. Woodworth, a Civil War historian, has selected a wide variety of moving first person accounts, each of which tells a story of a life as well as the attitudes of ordinary people and the real conditions of war and homefront. Woodworth presents the war in the words of those who lived it.