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The War Hits Home - The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia (Paperback)
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The War Hits Home - The Civil War in Southeastern Virginia (Paperback)
Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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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.
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