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Border War

Name: Border War
Brand: University Press of Mississippi
SKU: 9781496860033
Price: 106.1 EUR
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A Yankee Family in Civil War Missouri

Автор: Marilyn Ferris Motz

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: University Press of Mississippi

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When fiddler and farmer Henry Smith and his wife Harriet moved from Michigan to southwest Missouri i...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Marilyn Ferris Motz

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2025

страници

277

EAN

9781496860033

Enbook ID

49233757

Издател

University Press of Mississippi

Теглоt

566

Размери

152 x 229

Пълно описание

When fiddler and farmer Henry Smith and his wife Harriet moved from Michigan to southwest Missouri in 1858, they considered themselves part of a Yankee cultural community whose taste and aspirations were shaped by northern publications and represented by the new Republican Party. By 1861 Vernon County Court Judge Henry Smith no longer called himself a Yankee or Republican, but he hoped his isolated prairie community would remain in the Union. Montevallo's location at the intersection of roads from Boonville and Lexington south to Carthage and from Springfield to Fort Scott, Kansas, placed the Smith family's log house in the path of troops fighting to establish Confederate or Union control of Missouri. The Smiths saw neighbor turn against neighbor as they played reluctant host to the succession of Union troops, Confederate soldiers, bushwhackers, and jayhawkers who swarmed past their homestead.

Border War: A Yankee Family in Civil War Missouri features the evocative writings of the young couple to illuminate wide-ranging challenges faced by many rural American households in the Civil War era. Throughout the turmoil, the Smiths documented their experiences in diaries, letters, school essays, magazine publications, and petitions. Drawing on archives, family papers, and government records, author Marilyn Ferris Motz pieces together the Smiths' saga. As the Civil War divided family and community alike and future dreams were abandoned to focus on immediate survival, these personal writings capture what it meant to live during a time of immense uncertainty and mortal danger.