Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories

by Ronald S. Coddington

Book Overview

"The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers," writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers--young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor--who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801890195
• ISBN13: 9780801890192
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"