The story of Culpeper County, Virginia, is a unique one in Civil
War history. Nestled in one of the South's most strategically
important locations, it was occupied by the Northern army,
recaptured by the Confederacy, and finally ceded to the North. Told
largely through diaries, papers, and correspondence of residents,
common infantrymen, and such eminent personalities as Robert E.
Lee, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant, Clara Barton, and Stonewall
Jackson, all of whom spent time in Culpeper, this story wonderfully
captures both the intimacy and grandeur of war. "Seasons of War
"moves from the primitive squalor of filled hospitals and the daily
indignities of a soldier's life to the editorials of a local
newspaperman and the struggles of women and children left to the
mercy of an occupying and hostile army. While famous Culpeper
visitors like Lee and Whitman compose dispatches and lyric poetry,
private citizens mourn their dead and defend their homes. Here are
the very personal aspirations, losses, and sometimes gruesome
banalities of an unforgettable American war.
Sutherland's account of the war is unlike any other. Both a
military and a social history, it details the life of a single
Confederate community without losing sight of the titanic struggle
of a nation divided. It allows readers to join the councils of Lee
and Grant while sharing the letters of young couples separated by
war. We frolic with the fun-loving Jeb Stuart, experience the
confused terror of men in battle, feel the anguish of civilians
surrounded by contending armies, observe the tensions between
neighbors with different loyalties, and sense the joy of liberated
slaves.
Written in a daring style that thrusts readers into the vortex of
war, "Seasons of War "tells the story of a place and a nation. It
is a tale by turns heroic and mean, hopeful and bleak, humorous and
grave. It is a story of the American people--Northern and Southern,
white and black, free and unfree--at the defining hour of their
history.
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