Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War: Letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore Families, 1853–1865 (Civil War Sesquicentennial Edition)

Synopsis

This collection of Civil War correspondence chronicles the lives and concerns of three Confederate families in Piedmont, South Carolina.The letters in Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War provide valuable firsthand accounts of both battlefronts and the home front, sharing rich details about daily life as well as evolving attitudes toward the war. As the men of service age from each family join the Confederate ranks, they begin writing from military camps in Virginia and the Carolinas, describing combat in some of the war’s more significant battles. Though they remain staunch patriots to the Southern cause until the bitter end, the surviving combatants write candidly of their waning enthusiasm in the face of the realities of combat. The corresponding letters from the home front offer a more pragmatic assessment of the period and its hardships. Emblematic of the fates of many Southern families, the experiences of these representative South Carolinians are dramatically illustrated in their letters from the eve of the Civil War through its conclusion.

Copyright:

2009

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

224 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781611171105

Related ISBNs:

9781570037986

Publisher:

University Of South Carolina Press

Date of Addition:

07/29/23

Copyrighted By:

Thomas Moore Craig Jr.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Military, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies

Reading Age:

18 and up

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Tom Moore Craig

Introduction by:

Melissa Walker