| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1 | The History Cooperative

Amy Murrell Taylor. The Divided Family in Civil War America. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 319. $39.95.
Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina opens with the famous observation that happy families are alike and unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way. Amy Murrell Taylor's book examines some very unhappy U.S. families during the Civil War and, Tolstoy's assertion to the contrary, discovers some commonalities that enable her to discuss familial disquietude during the fratricidal conflict to form a valid and fascinating hypothesis.	1
Border state families are the focus of Taylor's work. The border states were key to the survival of the Union; if they joined the Confederacy the geographic size and population of the rebellion would most likely have scored adequate victories to succeed in the attempted secession. Some areas of the border states held few slaves (particularly western Virginia and western Maryland); others resembled the plantation South in their way of life. When the call came to choose sides, it was inevitable that division would result in those states. But divisions also came in families within those states, as brothers, sisters, parents, children, uncles, aunts, and in-laws picked the side that they felt represented best the world in which they wanted to live.	. . .

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