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Hearts torn asunder : trauma in the Civil War's final campaign in North Carolina /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dollar, Ernest A., Jr (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: El Dorado Hills : Savas Beatie, LLC, 2020.
Subjects:
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Psychological aspects.
North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Psychological aspects.
Combat > Psychological aspects > History > 19th century.
Sherman's March through the Carolinas > Psychological aspects.
North Carolina > Social conditions > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "So perish the memory of their faults!"
  • "I don't believe they know right from wrong": Confederate Soldiers
  • "a set of grand thieves as ever stole": Union Soldiers
  • "No lark could pipe to skies so dull and gray": North Carolina Civilians
  • April 10-12 "My mind is doing finely but pains me a great deal"
  • April 13-16 "the greatest of human crimes for us to attempt to continue war"
  • April 17- 24 "O! how the great heart of the army throbbed and swelled"
  • April 24- 30 "A war took something of the boy out of us"
  • May 1-4
  • "it was impossible to check the falling tears"
  • Epilogue:
  • "it wrings my heart to write about it."