Children During The Civil War

Author : James Alan Marten
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807849040
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Children's Civil War written by James Alan Marten and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Children's Civil War is an exploration of childhood during our nation's greatest crisis. James Marten describes how the war changed the literature and schoolbooks published for children, how it affected children's relationships with absent fathers and brothers, how the responsibilities forced on northern and especially southern youngsters shortened their childhoods, and how the death and destruction that tore the country apart often cut down children as well as adults.

Author : James Marten
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814796087
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children and Youth During the Civil War Era written by James Marten and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, the experience of children and youth during that tumultuous time remains a relatively unexplored facet of the conflict. Children and Youth during the Civil War Era seeks a deeper investigation into the historical record by and giving voice and context to their struggles and victories during this critical period in American history. Prominent historians and rising scholars explore issues important to both the Civil War era and to the history of children and youth, including the experience of orphans, drummer boys, and young soldiers on the front lines, and even the impact of the war on the games children played in this collection. Each essay places the history of children and youth in the context of the sectional conflict, while in turn shedding new light on the sectional conflict by viewing it through the lens of children and youth. A much needed, multi-faceted historical account, Children and Youth during the Civil War Era touches on some of the most important historiographical issues with which historians of children and youth and of the Civil War home front have grappled over the last few years.

Author : A. J. Schenkman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493055275
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unexpected Bravery written by A. J. Schenkman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil War divided the United States from 1861-1865. During those years, over two million soldiers served in both the Union and Confederate Armies. What is little known is that not only the numerous children, some as young 12, enlisted on both sides, but also women who disguised themselves as men in an attempt to make a difference in the epic struggle to determine the future of the United States of America.

Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429948434
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Siege! written by Andrea Warren and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Lucy McRae and two other young people, Willie Lord and Frederick Grant, all survivors of the Civil War's Battle for Vicksburg. In 1863, Union troops intend to silence the cannons guarding the Mississippi River at Vicksburg – even if they have to take the city by siege. To hasten surrender, they are shelling Vicksburg night and day. Terrified townspeople, including Lucy and Willie, take shelter in caves – enduring heat, snakes, and near suffocation. On the Union side, twelve-year-old Frederick Grant has come to visit his father, General Ulysses S. Grant, only to find himself in the midst of battle, experiencing firsthand the horrors of war. "Living in a cave under the ground for six weeks . . . I do not think a child could have passed through what I did and have forgotten it." – Lucy McRae, age 10, 1863 Period photographs, engravings, and maps extend this dramatic story as award-winning author Andrea Warren re-creates one of the most important Civil War battles through the eyes of ordinary townspeople, officers and enlisted men from both sides, and, above all, three brave children who were there.

Author : Emmy E Werner
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Witnesses written by Emmy E Werner and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998-03-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Civil War touched the lives of millions of children on the battlefield and the home front. Based on eyewitness accounts of 120 children, ages four to sixteen, "Reluctant Witnesses" gives their perspective on America's bloodiest conflict and how they managed to cope. Their diaries, letters, and reminiscences are a testimony to the astonishing resiliency of the human spirit. Like children of contemporary wars, these children from the Union and the Confederacy speak without hate but with the stubborn hope that peace might prevail in the end.

Author : Clara MacCarald
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1641851767
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children during the Civil War written by Clara MacCarald and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates the experience of children who lived during the American Civil War. Captivating text, informative infographics, and historical photos make this title a compelling and thought-provoking read for young history lovers.

Author : Candice F. Ransom
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781575052410
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Civil War written by Candice F. Ransom and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lives of children during the Civil War, including those who joined armies, others who stayed home, and the large numbers made homeless because of the conflict.

Author : Tim Pletkovich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780918339690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Fathers written by Tim Pletkovich and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the broad span of American social, cultural, and economic change over about 100 years, the book views the Civil War through the eyes of children listening to their father's stories and World War II through the eyes of the same children as grown-up participants.

Author : Scotti Cohn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493017586
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Their Years written by Scotti Cohn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes a war's greatest heroes are its survivors, those who manage to forge new lives despite the tragedy they have experienced. For the sixteen unsung heroes profiled in Beyond Their Years, surviving also meant surrendering their childhood. These children found themselves on the edge of the fray - both in combat and in the throes of daily life - helping, or simply enduring, as best their interrupted youths allowed. Their behind-the-scenes stories illustrate what it was really like for children during the Civil War. Meet Ransom Powell, a thirteen-year-old drummer boy who survived grueling Confederate prison camps; writer and patriot Maggie Campbell, only eight years old when the war ended; Ulysses S. Grant's son Jesse, who rode proudly alongside Abraham Lincoln's son Tad and Ella Sheppard, daughter of a slave mother and a freed father, who lived through the backlash of slave rebellions. Each of these young survivors' lives represent an amazing contribution to the war effort and to postbellum life. Learn the inspiring stories of these American children who displayed courage, devotion, and wisdom beyond their years.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541920899
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Did Women and Children Live during the Civil War? US History 5th Grade | Children's American History written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life sure was difficult for the men during the civil war. They had to choose whether to protect the country or stay at home for their families. If life was difficult for the heads of the household, how much more for the women and children? In this history book, we will take a look at how life was like for the “vulnerable members of society” during the period.