Journey to the Wilderness - War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters (Hardcover)

On the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the war—and the way we remember it—through letters written by his family, including his great-great grandfather and his two sons, both of whom were Confederate officers. As Gaillard explains in his introductory essay, he came of age in a Southern generation that viewed the war as a glorious lost cause. But as he read through letters collected by members of his family, he confronted a far more sobering truth. "Oh, this terrible war," wrote his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Gaillard. "Who can measure the troubles—the affliction—it has brought upon us all?" To this real-time anguish in voices from the past, Gaillard offers a personal remembrance of the shadow of war and its place in the haunted identity of the South. "My own generation," he writes, "was, perhaps, the last that was raised on stories of gallantry and courage . . . Oddly, mine was also the one of the first generations to view the Civil War through the lens of civil rights—to see . . . connections and flaws in Southern history that earlier generations couldn’t bear to face."

General

Imprint:	NewSouth, Incorporated
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2015
Authors:	Frye Gaillard • Steven Trout
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	128
ISBN-13:	978-1-58838-312-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns Books > History > General
LSN:	1-58838-312-1
Barcode:	9781588383129

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