Confederate Phoenix: Rebel Children and Their Families in South Carolina

by Edmund L. Drago

Book Overview

In this innovative book, Edmund L. Drago tells the first full story of white children and their families in the most militant Southern state, and the state where the Civil War erupted.

Drawing on a rich array of sources, many of them formerly untapped, Drago shows how the War transformed the domestic world of the white South. Households were devastated by disease, death, and deprivation. Young people took up arms like adults, often with tragic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823229378
• ISBN13: 9780823229376
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"