An east Texas family's Civil War: the letters of Nancy & William Whatley, May-December 1862

"During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that demonstrate vividly the quickly changing roles for women whose husbands left home to participate in the Civil War. The Whatleys were slave owners who owned a ra...

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Weitere Verfasser: Whatley, John T. 1933- (HerausgeberIn), Jones, Jacqueline 1948- (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Library of Southern civilization
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Zusammenfassung:"During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that demonstrate vividly the quickly changing roles for women whose husbands left home to participate in the Civil War. The Whatleys were slave owners who owned a ranch in east Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, leaving his wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm and enslaved workers"--
Beschreibung:xlviii, 150 Seiten 3 Karten 23 cm
ISBN:9780807170694

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