The War Was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War

by Joan E. Cashin

Book Overview

Though civilians constituted the majority of the nation's population and were intimately involved with almost every aspect of the war, we know little about the civilian experience of the Civil War. That experience was inherently dramatic. Southerners lived through the breakup of basic social and economic institutions, including, of course, slavery. Northerners witnessed the reorganization of society to fight the war. And citizens of the border...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691091749
• ISBN13: 9780691091747
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.8"