To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, U S. A., 2002
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429pp including index Illustrations Contains thirty one stories are featured.
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- Title
- To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876
- Author
- Diffley, Kathleen: Editor
- Publisher
- Duke University Press, U S. A.
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822334399
- ISBN 13
- 9780822334392
- Seller catalogs
- History, Military History
The authors, who include Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain, depict the horrors of the battlefield, the suffering in prison camps and field hospitals, and the privations of the home front. In these pages, bushwhackers carry the war to out-of-the-way homesteads, spies work households from the inside, journeying paymasters rely on the kindness of border women, and soldiers turn out to be girls. The stories are populated with nurses, officers, speculators, preachers, slaves, and black troops, and they take place in cities, along the frontier, and on battlefields from Shiloh to Gettysburg.
The book opens with a prewar vigilante attack on the Underground Railroad and a Kansas parson in Henry King’s “The Cabin at Pharoah’s Ford” and concludes with an ex-slave recalling the loss of her remaining son in Twain’s “A True Story.” In between are stories written by both women and men that were published in magazines from the South and West as well as the culturally dominant Northeast. Wartime wood engravings highlight the text. Kathleen Diffley’s introduction provides literary and historical background, and her commentary introduces readers to magazine authors as well as the deepening disruptions of a country at war.
Just as they did for nineteenth-century readers, these stories will bring the war home to contemporary readers, giving shape to a crisis that rocked the nation then and continues to haunt it now.
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About the Author
Kathleen Diffley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861–1876.
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