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The death of a Confederate colonel : Civil War stories and a novella /
Dramatically compelling and historically informed, The Death of a Confederate Colonel takes us into the lives of those left behind during the Civil War. These stories, all with Arkansas settings, are filled with the trauma of the time. They tell of a Confederate woman's care of and growing affe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Dramatically compelling and historically informed, The Death of a Confederate Colonel takes us into the lives of those left behind during the Civil War. These stories, all with Arkansas settings, are filled with the trauma of the time. They tell of a Confederate woman's care of and growing affection for a wounded Union soldier, a plantation mistress's singular love for a sick slave child, and an eight-year-old girl's fight for survival against frigid cold, injury, starvation, heartbreak, and lawlessness. Here are women holding down the home front with heroism and loyalty, or, sometimes, with w. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 161 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781610751216 1610751213 |