I Do Wish this Cruel War Was Over collects diaries, letters, and
memoirs excerpted from their original publication in the Arkansas
Historical Quarterly to offer a first-hand, ground-level view of
the war's horrors, its mundane hardships, its pitched battles and
languid stretches, even its moments of frivolity. Readers will find
varying degrees of commitment and different motivations among
soldiers on both sides, along with the perspective of civilians. In
many cases, these documents address aspects of the war that would
become objects of scholarly and popular fascination only years
after their initial appearance: the guerrilla conflict that became
the "real war" west of the Mississippi; the "hard war" waged
against civilians long before William Tecumseh Sherman set foot in
Georgia; the work of women in maintaining households in the absence
of men; and the complexities of emancipation, which saw African
Americans winning freedom and sometimes losing it all over again.
Altogether, these first-person accounts provide an immediacy and a
visceral understanding of what it meant to survive the Civil War in
Arkansas.
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