My old Confederate home : a respectable place for Civil War veterans /
In the wake of America's Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men who fought for the Confederacy trudged back to their homes in the Southland. Some-due to lingering effects from war wounds, other disabilities, or the horrors of combat-were unable to care for themselves. Homeless, disabled, and d...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The cripple and the banker
- The private and the clubwoman
- The boat captain and the bank robber
- The auditor and the stockman
- The governor and the prisoner
- The druggist and the sheriff
- The general's sister and the stockman's wife
- The knight and the icemaker
- The railroad man and the barber
- The socialite and the editor
- The fiddlers and the Indian agent
- The farmer and the daughter
- The trainer and the undertaker
- The reverend and the rector
- The engineer and the little girl.