| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South. Ed. by Catherine Clinton. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513683-7. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-19-513684-5.)

Catherine Clinton brings together in this volume twelve original essays on family life during the Civil War era by junior and senior scholars. Some of these families rarely make an appearance in stories traditionally told about the South. More familiar families are seen through new perspectives. Jewish families cope with Christian evangelicalism; brothers—German Texans—become demoralized when fellow Confederates question their loyalty. White Southerners with family members away at war petition the Confederate government for aid; black Southerners struggle to piece together families rent by the vagaries of slavery and war. A pious Presbyterian wife in east Tennessee prays for strength to endure the dislocations of war, while soldiers at the battlefront cope by constructing romantic visions of a segregated heaven peopled with family units. Single white women in wartime Richmond find a bounty of eligible bachelors in the Confederate capital, but legal and economic obstacles make it difficult for Virginia's widows to remarry or otherwise reconstruct lives in the postwar South. Under wartime demands, an elite South Carolina family ironically weakens southern kinship ties but strengthens bonds with northern relations; an elite Alabama couple redefines gender roles. . . .

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