Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast
and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children
celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and
widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and
suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy
invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of
freedom. Offering a fascinating look at how children were affected
by our nation's greatest crisis, James Marten examines their toys
and games, their literature and schoolbooks, the letters they
exchanged with absent fathers and brothers, and the hardships they
endured. He also explores children's politicization, their
contributions to their homelands' war efforts, and the lessons they
took away from the war. Drawing on the childhoods of such diverse
Americans as Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore
Roosevelt, and on sources that range from diaries and memoirs to
children's ""amateur newspapers,"" Marten examines the myriad ways
in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American
children. ""An original-minded, skillfully and suggestively
presented history, haunting in its detailed unfolding of a war that
put so many already vulnerable youngsters in danger, but elicited
from some of them, as well, impressively sensitive, responsive
thoughts, gestures, and deeds in what became, as this extraordinary
book's title insists, their civil war.""-- Journal of American
History ""James Marten's thoroughly researched and engagingly
written study . . . stands as one of the most exciting studies to
emerge in the last dozen years. . . . Marten has taken a topic
ignored by both Civil War historians and historians of childhood
and crafted an engaging, masterful, nuanced, and readable study
that will not quickly leave the reader's mind or heart.""--
American Studies ""The first comprehensive account of Civil War
children. . . . Thoroughly researched and nicely illustrated, The
Children's Civil War will be a touchstone for historians and
generalists who seek to gain a fuller understanding of life on the
home front between 1861 and 1865.""-- Civil War History The
Children's Civil War is a poignant and fascinating look at
childhood during our nation's greatest crisis. Using sources that
include diaries, memoirs, and letters, James Marten examines the
wartime experiences of young people--boys and girls, black and
white, northern and southern--and traces the ways in which the
Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children.
--> |Adding an important dimension to the literature on the
Civil War, this book examines the wartime experiences of
children--white and black, northern and southern. Marten examines
letters, games, books, and toys of the period, and includes the
experiences of some famous individuals including Booker T.
Washington, Jane Addams, and Theodore Roosevelt to reveal the war's
impact on children's lives.
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