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Voices from Virginia, 1860-1891
出版Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission, 2016
主題History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN09834012689780983401261
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VS_jjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"At the request of the Sesquicentennial Commission, historian James Robertson has produced this small volume. It is a sampler of the Legacy Project; it contains references to less than a third of the huge collection. The writers are Confederate and Federal soldiers on duty in Virgina, as well as residents who lived from Bristol in the southwestern mountains to Heathsville near the Chesapeake Bay. Using the war in Virginia as a grid, Robertson inserts personal reactions and feelings on a season-to-season, year-by-year basis. Patriotic sentiments and battle accounts are naturally present, but so are other feelings: camp life, home scenes, hunger, sickness, anxiety, humor, romantic interludes, anger, repulsion, fluctuating morale, helplessness at the approach of death, an unbreakable faith in God. Emphasis is--as history should always be--about human feelings. One can never understand the violence of the Civil War without realizing the high, sometimes uncontrollable, emotions that swept through a nation seeking a future. This volume is an introduction to those sentiments." -- pages 2 and 3 of cover.