| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina. By Edmund L. Drago. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. x, 204 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-2937-6.)

From studies of slaveholding daughters to wartime literature for Northern children, historians demonstrate that young people offer a perspective of war and its societal effects that is different than that of adults. Edmund L. Drago's richly detailed study of South Carolina youths and their families adds to this growing body of scholarship while raising new questions about the war's impact on the nature of families in the Confederate South and the cultural significance of war and memory. Swept up in a rising tide of patriotism for the nascent Confederacy, white children and youths, Drago's primary subject group, emerged from the margins of community life to become active agents in the process of nation building. Yet the war strained devotion of these young Southerners as it took a financial and emotional toll on families. This tumultuous four years of war, Drago contends, created "a legacy of hate" that subsequent generations passed on in the state, helping explain the resiliency of sectionalism (p. 5).

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