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Rebel Richmond : life and death in the Confederate capital / Stephen V. Ash.

Author/creator Ash, Stephen V.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles
Subject(s)
Series Civil War America
Civil War America (Series) ^A325557
Contents Richmond, Virginia: Thursday, 11 April 1861 -- Rebel patriots -- City of strangers -- Housing the multitudes -- Feeding the multitudes -- Working -- Dissent and despair -- Disorder, crime, and sin -- White supremacy and black resistance -- White society and its discontents -- Longing, suffering, and death -- 1-10 April 1865.
Abstract "Drawing on rich, previously untapped sources, Stephen V. Ash tells an absorbing tale of the city's diverse inhabitants. Civilians and soldiers, slaves and masters, refugees and prisoners, clerks and factory workers, preachers and prostitutes, patriots and draft-dodgers, the sick and the wounded--all endured a deluge of calamities such as no other American city has ever known"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-276) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019004289
ISBN9781469650982 (cloth : alk. paper)

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