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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Daydreams & nightmares
    sub title: a Virginia family faces secession and war
  title info:
    title: Daydreams and nightmares
  name:
    name part: Tarter, Brent
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: vau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 147 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Daydreams and Nightmares uses the private letters and other records of an Upshur County, Virginia, family to reveal through their own words and experiences how the secession crisis during the winter of 1860-61 and its aftermath affected them. As a member of the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861, George Berlin was separated from his wife Susan and their children (also from his brother and his wife, the sister of his own wife) for several months on the eve of the American Civil War. After he switched from opposing secession to endorsing it, he had to flee his hometown and was separated from his family again for over a year during the first part of the war. The large corpus of surviving letters between George and Susan Berlin contain vivid explanations of their hopes and fears and of their and their children's experiences during those two long separations. It is a dramatic story unique to them but comparable to what thousands of other Americans experienced during that time. It is in part a love story, but it is also a story about ordinary people in extraordinary events. They lost their home and property in western Virginia and had to resettle in eastern Virginia. As a consequence, the extended family of which they were a part became separated, too. Their story intersects major themes in nineteenth-century American history, including the impact of the Civil War and the rapidly emerging field of family history.
  table of contents: Daydreams -- Speech -- Nightmares -- Secession -- Separation -- Reunion -- Regrets.
  note: Brent Tarter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-wv
    geographic code: n-us-va
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Berlin, George W
      name part: 1823-
    topic: Family
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Berlin, George W
      name part: 1823-
    genre: Correspondence
  subject:
    geographic: Upshur County (W. Va.)
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Upshur County (W. Va.)
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Upshur County (W. Va.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Families
    geographic: Virginia
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Virginia
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Secession
    geographic: Southern States
  classification: F247.U6 T37 2015
  classification: 975.5/03
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Nation divided
  identifier: 9780813937090 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 0813937094 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  identifier: 9780813937106 (ebook)
  identifier: 2014034568
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150217
    record change date: 20150512120003.0
    record identifier: in00003531079