The War Hits Home The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia 1st Edition by Brian Steel Mills 0813940605 9780813940601

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ISBN 10: 0813940605 

ISBN 13: 9780813940601

Author: Brian Steel Mills

In 1863 Confederate forces under Lieutenant General James Longstreet, while scouring Southside Virginia for badly needed supplies, threatened the Union garrison in Suffolk. For the residents of surrounding Nansemond, Isle of Wight, and Southampton Counties, the Suffolk campaign followed an exhausting and deadly pattern. Already subjected to the demands of waves of soldiers, first Southern recruits and then Union occupation troops, the people of the region faced the severest tests the Civil War could impose upon human beings.

In The War Hits Home, Brian Steel Wills tells the story of these real people in the crucible of war. Reconstructing life for soldiers from the region on the battlefield and for civilians in the homes of southeastern Virginia, Wills provides a full depiction of what life was like for the ordinary person—black, white, soldier, citizen, Unionist, or secessionist—contending with domestic, economic, social, and military hardship in the contest of sectionalism and war. Wills employs their individual experiences to illustrate the impact of the war on a human scale, on soldiers and their relatives, North and South. We witness battlefield horror and family despair, African Americans’ embrace of freedom, and the persistence of Confederate nationalism among most whites in the region.

Taken as a whole, The War Hits Home is a sweeping but extraordinarily detailed canvas of a fractured American South.

The War Hits Home The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia 1st Table of contents:

1. “Blood Thirsty for Lincoln” – October 1859-May 1861

2. A “Lion” Is in the Streets – May 1861-April 1862

3. Paradise Lost – May-September 1862

4. A Deserted House – October 1862-January 1863

5. A Winter of Discontent – January-March 1863

6. The “War Horse” Jockeys for Provisions – March-April 1863

7. The War Hits Home – April 11-14, 1863

8. A “Knight” in Suffolk – April 15-19, 1863

9. “Waiting for the Wagons” – April 20-30, 1863

10. No-Man’s-Land – May-July 1863

11. “Nothing but Glory” – July-December 1863

12. “Do Hurry Friends” – January-May 1864

13. An Autumn of Despair – June-December 1864

14. “Let Us Suffer Together” – January 1865-January 1866

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