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Title: In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 by Edward L. Ayers ISBN: 0-393-05786-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Life in time of war.
Comment: This is the first book from The Valley of the Shadow Project and may become the classic Civil War home front book. Two counties, one in Pennsylvania one in Virginia were selected and life during the war closely documented. Very few of the people in this book are even minor players in the war, which is the books greatest strength. Without "important" figures, the story concentrates on what's in the newspapers, changes in prices and local problems, in other words the normal daily life of the people living in the counties.
An excellent introduction tells us about counties and the people free, slave, white, black, rich, middle class or poor. We learn how they make a living, farmers for the most part, what industry and jobs are open to them. How they learned of the events beyond the county and how they reacted to them. We are taken through the election of 1860 and into war.
We gain an understanding of a war that isn't generals and battles but separation, death and sadness. Battles are reported in terms of local men killed, wounded or missing and in letters that are printed in the paper or passed from house to house. Fear of the enemy army and invasion is very real and happens. Politics is very important and the divisions in the North contrast with the solidarity in the South. As Pennsylvania's Democrats and Republicans fight for power and over emancipation. While in Virginia, the papers report the problems as evidence the North's war effort is failing.
This is a book for the serious student of the war and for a person who wants to learn about life in America 140 years ago. This is one of the most informative books on the Civil War that I've read and recommend it to you.
Rating: 5
Summary: The war as they lived it!
Comment: This is not an introduction the American Civil War but the war as people lived it. Starting in 1859 and ending in 1863, the reader "lives" through these years with a county in the north and a county in the south. You learn about people and get an idea of how they felt and reacted to ongoing events. Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862 becomes very real with rumors, wounded, killed and wagons to transport captured supplies. John Brown is that man that rented the room in the local hotel on his way to Harper's Ferry. Nashville, Shiloh, enlistments, wives and mothers live and die in what becomes a very personal story for the reader.
Very well written, easy and fun to read, this may be the best gift for your Civil War Buff.
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Title: Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears ISBN: 0395867614 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Hallowed Ground : A Walk at Gettysburg by James M. McPherson ISBN: 0609610236 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends by David Herbert Donald ISBN: 0743254686 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Touched With Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That Made Them by James M. Perry ISBN: 1586481142 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War by Brent Nosworthy ISBN: 0786711477 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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