The Resource Weirding the war : stories from the Civil War's ragged edges, edited by Stephen Berry
Weirding the war : stories from the Civil War's ragged edges, edited by Stephen Berry
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- Summary
- "It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terƯrible again. Taking a "freakonomics" approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about damage, even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged. Here then is not only the grandness of the Civil War but its more than occasional littleness. Here are those who profited by the war and those who lost by it-and not just those who lost all save their honor, but those who lost their honor too. Here are the cowards, the coxcombs, the belles, the deserters, and the scavengers who hung back and so survived, even thrived. Here are dark topics like torture, hunger, and amputation. Here, in short, is war
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 385 pages).
- Contents
-
- Letting the war slip through our hands : material culture and the weakness of words in the Civil War era / Michael DeGruccio -- The pleasures of Civil War ruins / Megan Kate Nelson -- Confederate menace : sequestration on the North Carolina home front / Rodney J. Steward -- The tale of three Kates : outlaw women, loyalty, and Missouri's long Civil War / LeeAnn Whites -- "Days of lightly-won and lightly-held hearts" : courtship and coquetry in the Southern Confederacy / Anya Jabour -- Love is a battlefield : Lizzie Alsop's flirtation with the Confederacy / Steven E. Nash -- Dissecting the torture of Mrs. Owens : the story of a Civil War atrocity / Barton A. Myers -- Hungry people in the wartime South : civilians, armies, and the food supply / Joan E. Cashin -- The historian as death investigator / Stephen Berry
- How a cold snap in Kentucky led to freedom for thousands : an environmental story of emancipation / Amy Murrell Taylor -- Rituals of horsemanship : a speculation on the ring tournament and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan / Paul Christopher Anderson -- The loyal deserters : African American soldiers and community in Civil War Memphis / Andrew L. Slap -- The arrest and court martial of Captain George Dobson / Kenneth W. Noe -- Soldier-speak / Peter S. Carmichael -- The Civil War career of General James Abbott Whistler / Daniel E. Sutherland -- Confederate amputees and the women who loved (or tried to love) them / Brian Craig Miller -- "Will they ever be able to forget?" : Confederate soldiers and mental illness in the defeated South / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Ira Forbes's war / Lesley J. Gordon -- Afterword / Michael Fellman
- Isbn
- 9781283303699
- Label
- Weirding the war : stories from the Civil War's ragged edges
- Title
- Weirding the war
- Title remainder
- stories from the Civil War's ragged edges
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Stephen Berry
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terƯrible again. Taking a "freakonomics" approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about damage, even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged. Here then is not only the grandness of the Civil War but its more than occasional littleness. Here are those who profited by the war and those who lost by it-and not just those who lost all save their honor, but those who lost their honor too. Here are the cowards, the coxcombs, the belles, the deserters, and the scavengers who hung back and so survived, even thrived. Here are dark topics like torture, hunger, and amputation. Here, in short, is war
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 973.7/1
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E468.9
- LC item number
- .W44 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Berry, Stephen William
- Series statement
- Uncivil wars
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- United States
- HISTORY
- Social aspects
- United States
- Regions & Countries - Americas
- History & Archaeology
- United States - General
- Label
- Weirding the war : stories from the Civil War's ragged edges, edited by Stephen Berry
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- Contents
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- Letting the war slip through our hands : material culture and the weakness of words in the Civil War era / Michael DeGruccio -- The pleasures of Civil War ruins / Megan Kate Nelson -- Confederate menace : sequestration on the North Carolina home front / Rodney J. Steward -- The tale of three Kates : outlaw women, loyalty, and Missouri's long Civil War / LeeAnn Whites -- "Days of lightly-won and lightly-held hearts" : courtship and coquetry in the Southern Confederacy / Anya Jabour -- Love is a battlefield : Lizzie Alsop's flirtation with the Confederacy / Steven E. Nash -- Dissecting the torture of Mrs. Owens : the story of a Civil War atrocity / Barton A. Myers -- Hungry people in the wartime South : civilians, armies, and the food supply / Joan E. Cashin -- The historian as death investigator / Stephen Berry
- How a cold snap in Kentucky led to freedom for thousands : an environmental story of emancipation / Amy Murrell Taylor -- Rituals of horsemanship : a speculation on the ring tournament and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan / Paul Christopher Anderson -- The loyal deserters : African American soldiers and community in Civil War Memphis / Andrew L. Slap -- The arrest and court martial of Captain George Dobson / Kenneth W. Noe -- Soldier-speak / Peter S. Carmichael -- The Civil War career of General James Abbott Whistler / Daniel E. Sutherland -- Confederate amputees and the women who loved (or tried to love) them / Brian Craig Miller -- "Will they ever be able to forget?" : Confederate soldiers and mental illness in the defeated South / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Ira Forbes's war / Lesley J. Gordon -- Afterword / Michael Fellman
- Control code
- 761711427
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 385 pages).
- File format
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- online
- Isbn
- 9781283303699
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- unknown
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- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
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- 9786613303691
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- not applicable
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- unknown
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- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)761711427
- Label
- Weirding the war : stories from the Civil War's ragged edges, edited by Stephen Berry
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Letting the war slip through our hands : material culture and the weakness of words in the Civil War era / Michael DeGruccio -- The pleasures of Civil War ruins / Megan Kate Nelson -- Confederate menace : sequestration on the North Carolina home front / Rodney J. Steward -- The tale of three Kates : outlaw women, loyalty, and Missouri's long Civil War / LeeAnn Whites -- "Days of lightly-won and lightly-held hearts" : courtship and coquetry in the Southern Confederacy / Anya Jabour -- Love is a battlefield : Lizzie Alsop's flirtation with the Confederacy / Steven E. Nash -- Dissecting the torture of Mrs. Owens : the story of a Civil War atrocity / Barton A. Myers -- Hungry people in the wartime South : civilians, armies, and the food supply / Joan E. Cashin -- The historian as death investigator / Stephen Berry
- How a cold snap in Kentucky led to freedom for thousands : an environmental story of emancipation / Amy Murrell Taylor -- Rituals of horsemanship : a speculation on the ring tournament and the origins of the Ku Klux Klan / Paul Christopher Anderson -- The loyal deserters : African American soldiers and community in Civil War Memphis / Andrew L. Slap -- The arrest and court martial of Captain George Dobson / Kenneth W. Noe -- Soldier-speak / Peter S. Carmichael -- The Civil War career of General James Abbott Whistler / Daniel E. Sutherland -- Confederate amputees and the women who loved (or tried to love) them / Brian Craig Miller -- "Will they ever be able to forget?" : Confederate soldiers and mental illness in the defeated South / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Ira Forbes's war / Lesley J. Gordon -- Afterword / Michael Fellman
- Control code
- 761711427
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 385 pages).
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781283303699
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613303691
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 330369
- 22573/ctt3q4fd6
- e7a067c1-c27e-4f80-8708-5ac20b77ad1d
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)761711427
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