Year in the South 1865 The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History

Name: Year in the South 1865 The True Story of Four Ordinary People Who Lived Through the Most Tumultuous Twelve Months in American History
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ISBN: 9780060582487

ISBN-10: 0060582480

ISBN-13: 9780060582487

Edition: 2004

Authors: Stephen V. Ash

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A slave determined to gain freedom, a widow battling poverty and despair, a man of God grappling with spiritual and worldly troubles, and a former Confederate soldier seeking a new life. They lived in the South during 1865 -- a year that saw war, disunion, and slavery give way to peace, reconstruction, and emancipation. Between January and December 1865, these four people witnessed, from very different vantage points, the death of the Old South and the birth of the New South. Civil War historian Stephen V. Ash reconstructs their daily lives, their fears and hopes, and their frustrations and triumphs in vivid detail -- telling a dramatic story of real people in a time of great upheaval and…

Book details

List price: $13.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Preface


Prologue: Four Southerners



Winter


Louis Hughes


Cornelia McDonald


John Robertson


Samuel Agnew



Spring


Samuel Agnew


John Robertson


Cornelia McDonald


Louis Hughes



Summer


Louis Hughes


Samuel Agnew


Cornelia McDonald


John Robertson



Fall and Another Winter


John Robertson


Cornelia McDonald


Louis Hughes


Samuel Agnew


Epilogue: 1866 and Beyond


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index